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In a message dated 8/2/2007 10:20:53 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
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Well...that's what I think too.
If I get fired...oh well.
Then I will have the Time (but no money...hmm, sound familiar?) to
Reanalyze all those old collections sitting in boxes...collecting
dust...that never were reported on...or were inadequately done, for
today's standards.
:o)
If Carol was working for me I'd ask what she is going to do with the data?
Who is writing the report, her or me? Unfortunately CRM budgets can't always
absorb the mostly irrelevant analysis that some people (like me, I admit)
want to gather. So you always have to ask, is the time required, for instance,
to measure each rimfire firing pin mark worth the effort? Does it really
matter? At Little Big Horn, yes. At a domestic site, probably not.
At the same time I have figured a sort of "MNG" for households based on the
number of unique cartridge types (1 .22, 1 .32 rimfire, 1 .32 centerfire,
etc). It amounted to about a paragraph in a two volume report. Interesting, and
an important piece of the puzzle, but three times the effort would not
result in substantially more information. So I'd say the person writing the report
should direct the lab to gather the information he or she needs to fulfill
their research design, and that lab workers with their own agendas should
pursue them on their own time.
Carl Steen
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