<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: -1; "></span></div></blockquote>Thanks for all the recent enhancement Jun, this is very exciting. I have been following the conversation sort of, in the midst of getting a grant submitted. In response to some things from today:</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: -1; ">I agree with Karl about the standardization of the process, and removing the possibility for more error to be made. I think it would be good to have the option to have just a one click that has as its default the previous month's ranking.</span></div></blockquote><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>I agree. Having the default be alpha does increase room for error and adds inevitable multiple keystrokes at each ranking. But I don't know how hard this is to change.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Susan</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"> <blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">There are other procedures that are followed when a new ranking</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">is created, if there's no pre-existing data at all.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I forget</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">the details, but I recall ordering some initial ranking by</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">age.</div></blockquote></blockquote><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>In the absence of a ranking from the previous month, the best default is by age-sex class, with different rules for each, in this order:</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>1. Adult males, in reverse age order (youngest to oldest_</div><div>2. Subadult males, in age order (oldest to youngest)</div><div>3. Adult females, alpha</div><div>4. Juv males, age order (oldest to youngest)</div><div>5. Juv females, age order (oldest to youngest)</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>I hope this helps.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: -1; ">-----------------------------------------------</span></div></blockquote></blockquote></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div>Susan Alberts, Dept. Biology, Duke University, Durham NC 27708. Phone 919-660-7272, Fax 919-660-7293. <a href="mailto:alberts@duke.edu">alberts@duke.edu</a></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span> </div><br></body></html>