I still say that he is incorrect if he was indeed trying to say that the BC numbers should have been sequential with birth date and time in 1961.
And do consider, rules or procedures saying that something should be done a certain way doesn't give you an ironclad guarantee that they necessarily were done that way.
I stand by the statement that there are numerous rational explanations for discontinuities in BC numbers that do not require conspiracies or criminal collusion and that you are trying to draw too strong of conclusions from far too little information.
You said it again. It seems like you’re not grasping that it isn’t the BIRTH DATES that are numbered sequentially. It’s the BC’s filed on a particular day - the DATE FILED.
That means on a given date that they’re filing all the BC’s that came in that day, they use the mechanical stamp and change the number to go up 1 each time they stamp something, instead of moving around a couple numbers, figuring out which numbers they used, and then going backwards and forwards hopping about.
And then the next day they know what number they last stamped from the day before because that’s what their stamp is set on. They move the number up one and they’re good to go - stamp, switch, stamp, switch, stamp...
This is basic stuff.
I used to work in the Financial Aid Office when I was in college. I opened the mail. You put it all in a pile and then you take the date stamp: bang, bang, bang, bang until you’re done. Then you deliver them where they need to be. Usually they had me check the financial aid index number and scan the doc to see if all the fields were complete and sort into piles based on whether the index number was within the range for pell grants and whether all the info was complete. So I’d sort the piles as I opened the envelopes, stamp the pile, and then deliver the piles to the people who had to process them. Sometimes documents would come in that didn’t need to be processed; I would date-stamp those and then file them.
That’s how I can imagine an office working. A secretary takes the pile of BC’s that have come in from a particular hospital, thumbs through them to see if any are missing anything, stamps the ones that are good, writes them in an index, and then files them.
The Factcheck one was done on Tuesday. The Nordykes’ were done on Friday.
How do you say the Tuesday one ended up 2 higher than the Friday ones?