[Babase] Comments on social interactions
Karl O. Pinc
kop at meme.com
Fri Feb 3 15:58:53 EST 2006
On 02/03/2006 12:24:58 PM, Catherine Markham (amarkham at Princeton.EDU)
wrote:
> From: "Karl O. Pinc" <kop at meme.com>
>
> > (What does "Strikethrough" mean?)
>
> The strickthrough was just that I had crossed out the "for that year"
> portion of "For these data, all dates are entered as the first day of
> the month for that year". Not important.
(Word didn't seem to show me any struck-through text, maybe it
was just omitted...)
>
> > 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.
>
> This still doesn't make sense to me, but maybe I just never knew this
> rule with entry before. I would think the data entry person would
> discard the interaction if it was written, say, for July of 2004 but
> the two baboons were not together in the group that month. I know I
> wouldn't have back-tracked to see that the two participants were in
> the group in maybe May and assumed the data was for that month. Is
> that what you're suggesting?
There's two issues. Two individuals that are not in
the same group can interact because the groups can come
into contact, but that's not the point here. What is more of an
issue is immigrent males. Say a male does not show up until
the 20th July. Dating his interactions the first of July
dates the interactions when he was not in the group.
The origial docs said to date, say, an interaction occuring
on the 25th of July, as the 20th of July, because that was
when everybody was first in the group together.
>
>
> > 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?
>
> I actually like what you just said better than the original ("However,
> the protocol is silent regards ejaculations occurring during
> all-occurrences sampling so the researcher will need to investigate
> this further")... something along those lines reads much easier to me.
Tweaked.
Karl <kop at meme.com>
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