Horwood said he had never spent the night with a data set that he could respect in the morning. AEP -----Original Message----- From: a1d08-news-bounces(a)chrispy.net [mailto:a1d08-news-bounces@chrispy.net] On Behalf Of Turner, Shawn Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 9:42 AM To: Ed Christopher; Todd Ashby Cc: tracmark(a)u.washington.edu; ABJ30 Members List; Jonette Kreideweis Subject: RE: [ABJ30] external travel surveys Ed - isn't that the way it is with most data sets? The closer you are, the more your heartburn. According to Horwood's Laws of Data (thanks to Mark Hallenbeck for making these available), Law #4 says that "The respectability of existing data grows with elapsed time and distance from the data source to the investigator." <clip> However, if you hire someone and don't look too closely you will get fine data set. I probably got to close to mine.... _______________________________________________ a1d08-news mailing list a1d08-news(a)chrispy.net http://www.chrispy.net/mailman/listinfo/a1d08-news