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To: Junior
Raw data is useless

Raw data is a resource. Very valuable. It's up to the researcher to make something out of it, make a contribution to knowledge. That's what gets published: contributions to knowledge. Data itself does not get published in peer-reviewed journals.

30 posted on 05/13/2004 2:30:53 PM PDT by RightWhale (Destroy the dark; restore the light)
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To: RightWhale
Exactly. However, it takes time to parse the data, hence the relative scarcity* of scientific papers.

*Note the term "relative." There are thousands of papers published every year of all manner of subjects scientific.

32 posted on 05/13/2004 2:37:33 PM PDT by Junior (Sodomy non sapiens)
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