[Babase] Comments on social interactions
Karl O. Pinc
kop at meme.com
Wed Feb 1 15:14:56 EST 2006
On 01/31/2006 03:41:18 PM, Catherine Markham wrote:
> Hi Karl,
>
> Sorry for the delay in getting back to you on the reread of the social
> interaction documentation. Thanks for your email a while back about
> some of my specific comments from round one - your responses and our
> last conference call clarified most everything.
>
> After a quick skim of the rewritten sections, I just have a few
> questions. I'll send my comments in a separate email directly to you
> with a Word attachment.
The Word form makes it difficult to reply to in a way that
we can all see, so here's my comments:
I've updated the docs. If I've got nothing to say I probably made
the correction. Folks who have not yet read it might want to
work from the new copy.
Census. No. There are rows in CENSUS that are only there
because of demography notes.
Demog. We obviously didn't review the table summary. I'll take
one more stab at it, but as I'm not familiar with the entry
protocols you'll have to suggest revisions. Note that the point
is _not_ to reproduce the entry protocols but to describe the
software's capabilities.
Re: vividity. That was the best I could come up with that would
fit in a table.
Re: it's. Oops. That's what my fingers type. I obviously have
not gone back through the document to check for this. So, I just
did but you can expect them to creep back in until we get a final
version.
Re: Sexual cycles ER diagram. Each CYCPOINTS row represents a
single Ddate, Tdate, etc. So, PREGS.Conceive does point to a date.
(Same reason why the label from CYCLES.Sname says "Female", because
it points to a BIOGRAPH row that represents a female.) CYCPOINTS is
new, so it is a change from the old system. They are Cpids, not Cids.
Re INTERACT_DATA "lower date limits as to when" does not scan as well
to me as "lower limits as to when". Is it not clear that "when" means
"date"?
(What does "Strikethrough" mean?)
INTERACT_DATA.Date: No they would not change the month but would
change the date. (As usual, only usually the change would be to the
first day of the month.) The original docs said to make the date
the first day during the month when both individuals were in the
group. Usually this was the first day of the month.
I don't know what the story is with multi-party interactions. The
sentence was written before they were recording multi-party
interactions and, apparently, at the time it seemed clear that
multi-party interactions would be (were?) "disassembled" into
pairwise interactions. Now that there are multi-party interactions
we need to revisit the database design. (I think only in terms
of the ACTS table, but we'll see.)
Re: Recording grooming and agonism on infants. I don't care,
the doc describes the software's capabilities.
Re: submissive. I could just delete the parenthetical clause?
Re: POINT_DATA ejaculations. The protocol says nothing about
ejaculations. Anybody researching ejaculations will have
to investigate what was recorded. How else should I write this?
Re: INTERACT View. I capitalized Julian everywhere. This is
probably right.
Re: cpm (Startcpm) Cpm should always be spm. Got some typo in there
somehow.
Re: ACTOR_ACTEES Normally, you can't have an INTERACT_DATA without
PARTS, but you can while you're in the process of entering the data
(for technical reasons summarized by saying that something has to
get into the database first.) This allows you to see the "incomplete"
entries and fix them.
Thanks for the comments. I like it that you're picky. Somebody's
gotta be.
Karl <kop at meme.com>
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