Ridecamp: RE: [RC] [Guest] Pull Codes/Data Collection

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[mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Ridecamp Guest
Sent: November 11, 2002 11:23 AM
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Subject: [RC] [Guest] Pull Codes/Data Collection


K S SWIGART katswig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Roy Drinnan said

>> My profession and expertise is that of a 25 year computer systems
consultant and software
  developer.  I can assure you that you can never go wrong by collecting
data.  The worst you have
  done is waste a little paper.  <<

And he is mistaken.  Bad data IS worse than no data.  If you have
no data, then you know you have no information and know that you are
making an uninformed choice and that your decision is a shot
in the dark.


I am sorry but data may be flawed for some purposes but the real flaw is in
the use of data, not the data.  Attempting to use data to support something
the data does not support is flawed, not the data.

Give me any statistic, and I can use your data to prove you wrong.
Statistics are the best lie in the world.  Is the class half full of half
empty.

Don't blame the data if it does not vontain what you think it should.  But
that been siad, we should all work to get more accurate data.  This is what
the new pull codes are all about.

Any horse that completes a ride, no matter how lame or metabolically
challenged does not require a pull code or a measurment of its fitness to
continue, but if you pull your horse, be honest about why you pulled the
horse.  Was it soundness, metabolics or just you having a bad day.  Its not
judgement, its just getting the right reasons.

Roy Drinnan



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