since Fiona's question is clearly of general interest could I please ask
zooarchers to reply to the whole list rather than just to her? many thanks
Quoting fiona beglane <[log in to unmask]>:
> Hello Zooarchers,
> I am trying to put together a research project at the moment looking at
> metrical data from grey literature and am coming up with a problem.
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> When I submit a report I include a tabulated form of the metrics which for
> each individual bone lists out the results for that individual bone e.g. GL,
> Bp etc. so that all the data from the one bone is together. Looking through
> grey literature I am finding a lot of reports that only include summary data
> e.g. for GL they would give the max, min, mean and std. dev. This is
> understandable in final publication where space is often at a premium, but I
> was surprised that the 'full' grey literature reports were being submitted in
> this way. From the point of view of looking at changes over time and space
> this makes the data much less useful to work with - and getting hold of the
> original data might be difficult where the zooarchaeologist may have left the
> country/profession.
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> Does anyone have any thoughts? eg. do you or do you not include the full data
> in the report? Any good reasons why this data should not be included? Any
> thoughts on how this summary data might be used in a valid way?
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> Thank you all
> Fiona
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