"Roadsides May Provide..."

Chris J. Durden drdn at mail.utexas.edu
Thu Jun 7 14:54:40 EDT 2001


Mike,
    The dean is not interested in the science but in the overhead!
.............Chris

At 10:46 AM 6/6/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>Wrote:
>Total of 43 for three 15 minute counts or an average of 56 per hour
>passing my house flying north toward Middletown. Interesting?
>    Now I know that this isn't science, it anecdote, but I thought some
>people might be interested. Also conditions were ideal yesterday and
>today the numbers were way down, less than a third of yeasterday's rate.
>But it's still a beautiful thing.
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>
>Actually, it doesn't seem far removed from science. If one were testing
>an hypothesis about whether butterflies could be diverted, or whether
>the rate was constant, or whether there was a diurnal or seasonal
>pattern, or whether traffic affected movement, the numbers would clearly
>represent "science".
>
>Science doesn't require expensive lab equipment (I keep reminding my
>dean of that) or large grants, but does require an inquisitive approach
>(which I suggest many people who work with expensive lab equipment don't
>necessarily have).
>
>Mike Gochfeld
>
>
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