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RE: Usage: Keeping the number of digits consistent?
Subject:RE: Usage: Keeping the number of digits consistent? From:"Dori Green" <dgreen -at- associatedbrands -dot- com> To:"techwr-l List" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 2 Oct 2007 11:01:18 -0400
A graduate-level nursing student once brought her master's thesis to me
to be re-typed because her committee had tossed it back to her when they
measured the margins and found some of them to be 1" instead of the
required 1.25". I think she actually sued the original typist.
The thesis had something to do with relationship of intercourse
frequency to incidence of UTIs. When I discovered a major error on her
original questionnaire -- repetition of "once per week" as two
categories instead of "once per week" and "once per month" -- she
quickly hushed me. They had not caught this underlying error making all
of the survey answers invalid and she was not about to 'fess up.
Sure enough, they re-measured the margins and passed her thesis. She
was right on the edge of a big nervous breakdown and I did not tattle on
her.
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