[Babase] Social interaction documents ready for review

Karl O. Pinc kop at meme.com
Mon Jan 16 10:57:08 EST 2006


On 12/20/2005 11:43:11 AM, Catherine Markham wrote:
> Hi Karl,
> 
> Attached are my notes on the sections listed below.

Here are my responses to some of your questions.  Being at Duke
presently it is particularly onerious for me to carry on
a dialog inside a MS Word document, so you'll just have
to go back to the source document for the context if it's
not clear.  Note that I have not (yet) adjusted my vocabulary
to be consistent with Susan's email, and that may be part
of the problem.

Re: BaBase Documentation - Baboon Data.doc

Comment 1: Yes, all data related to focal point sampling
has a SID, including data already in FoxPro.  AFIK none
of the "old" focal point data is in Babase.

Comment 2: To my understanding "all occurences" is with
respect to the focal individual.  Interactions between
other individuals may have occured during the point sample
but they will show up in the ADLIBS table as ad-lib data.

Comment 3: All the fissions.  (Alto's is particularly
problematic as it took at long time to happen.)

Comment 7: Precision is the right word but I see
the confusion.  I have
re-worded the sentences using it to clarifiy that I am
referring to the datatype of the column and not the data.

Comment:  Ok, I will always say "Psion palmtop" (instead of sometimes
saying just "Psion") when referring
specifically to the psions and their quirks,
and otherwise say "palmtop" when
it does not matter what device is used to collect the data.

Activities: Thanks, I forgot to document that you must have
a foodcode if you are feeding.

Neighbors: If there are no neighbors, then there's no row at
all in the neighbors table.  You would not put a row in and have
NULL in both the Sname and Unksname columns.

ADLIBS, Consortships:  No, "Such consortships" means the consortships
referred to in the previous sentence, "Consortships recorded as
ad-lib data during focal point sampling".  I did not want to
have to write "Consortships recorded as ad-lib data during
focal point sampling" all over again.  Where is the confusion?

Unstructured ad-lib text: AFIK there has always been the ability
to record arbitrary text in the Psion as ad-lib data.

Karl <kop at meme.com>
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