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Old 09-January-2009, 06:07 PM
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Originally Posted by Robert Tulip View Post
The data is there, but they would need to provide it in the format I need, which is a spreadsheet with two columns listing dates of birth and death, and possibly a third column for cause of death, then as many rows as they can send. The prospect of a trip to Saint Paul in the winter to bunker down with a microfiche for three months to do data entry is somehow not that appealing.
That's science for you.

I'm still waiting on the data that I need for my PhD. Twenty years ago, we thought it'd be any day then. I contacted some of the more influential researchers and thought I'd made some convincing arguments, but so far no go.