[Babase] CADET

Jeanne Altmann babase@www.eco.princeton.edu
Mon, 04 Oct 2004 11:30:44 -0400


We just made a very frustrating discovery.  Like WRINKLE, apparently CADET 
was initially classified as a female and then subsequently was found to be 
a male but that information never made it into the records in some overt 
way.  As a result, CADET is female in biograph and was a subject of the 
juvenile hormone study, not caught when we caught WRINKLE and instead still 
in the dataset. This was just caught because Daphne is working on the 
female matrices, CADET went above 'her' mother, I stupidly said that it had 
happened twice before (not going 'click', check gender; she and/or I 
usually to for a bunch of checks on anything odd), and Daphne was 
complaining to Nga about this troublesome 'girl' when Nga was here Friday, 
and Nga said 'boy'.

Bummer.

I propose to tell Laurence when she gets back, proceed to submit the ms as 
planned in the next week but then make the correction and all the 
reanalyses during the review process.  This shouldn't make any real changes 
in these broad findings, might make a couple of things stronger if any change.

Daphne & I have talked about ways to close this loop beyond the extra 
checking the field team has said they will do at the beginning of each month.
We propose that (1) they immediately send a message when they discover such 
a change (2) the names list in Amb have gender on it (may have already?) 
and that list be checked periodically (when?How?), (3) when a birth is 
first entered in Biograph (using neonatals, demog, and repro sheets), demog 
records from a few months later also be checked, and (4) perhaps a 
confimation of sex be sent to Amb when Biograph is being updated once or 
twice a year.

Thoughts?

jeanne

jeanne