[Babase] Female ranks question - female visits second group
Karl O. Pinc
babase@www.eco.princeton.edu
Wed, 15 Jun 2005 20:47:50 +0000
Seems like it'd be appropriate to allow the ranking program
to remove an individual from the ranks. The only trouble
would be if you did this by accident, with no way to add
an individual back you might have to start all over for the
month.
Are there any implications regards males?
On 06/14/2005 10:05:37 AM, Catherine Markham wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> While working through the 2004 female ranks, we came onto a case
> where a female appears in two groups in the same month. We've talked
> about
> how situations like this are handled with rankings during group
> fissions, but I'm not sure that we've addressed the topic for cases
> when the groups are relatively stable.
>
> The particular details for this instance involve Vogue's appearance in
> Omo's group for a few days in June 2004 (she was born into Dotty's
> group but went with Viola's after Dotty's fissioned). There were no
> decided agonisms for her in Omo's group in June. The ranker program
> automatically put her in the Omo's June matrix because she is present
> in the group that month. I did not know how to get her out of the
> rank matrix, so I had to manually remove her ranking from the BaBase
> ranks table for both ALF and ADF ranktypes.
>
> Just wanted to pass this along to the listserv to see if anyone had
> suggestions for a better way to handle something like this in the
> future.
>
> Thanks,
> Catherine
>
>
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Karl <kop@meme.com>
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