OT: PBF Project -- RIP
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- Subject: OT: PBF Project -- RIP
- From: S* M* <7*@compuserve.com>
- Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 16:30:23 -0600 (MDT)
Rita B wrote:
: It may be a bit early to pull the plug. =
Actually, I probably should have pulled the plug months ago -- but I was
hoping that the lack of submissions was due to procrastination rather tha=
n
disinterest.
: Perhaps with some preplanning,
: like get the idea into more heads a few months in advance and try agai=
n
: during the coming year- giving the people from the southern hemisphere=
an
: opportunity to participate as well. =
This year, we started discussing the project before bloom started in the
south and continued as bloom progressed northward. There was a lot of =
initial enthusiasm, but very few people actually got around to making the=
ir
observations and sending them in. =
I took the analysis far enough to determine that we are woefully short of=
enough data to detect a significant trend, either geographical or
chronological. I got only about 10% of the number of observations I
thought we'd need -- and most of them were clustered in the south and wes=
t.
This was just enough to show that my original estimate had been on the l=
ow
side, and convince me that there's no point in extending the project
another year.
If someone else wants to volunteer to crunch the data, though....
Sharon McAllister
73372.1745@compuser.come
