You can find all the principle investigators you want collecting datums ;) at
the ESRF, as that is how the French spell it on the application form for beam
time! (Unless it has _finally_ been corrected: haven't checked since I
submitted my last BAG application in April.)
Adrian
On 1 Apr 2012, at 17:52, George T. DeTitta wrote:
> Perhaps the world could use a few more principle investigators?
>
> A Buffalo view
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gerard Bricogne <[email protected]>
> Sender: CCP4 bulletin board <[email protected]>
> Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2012 15:18:15
> To: <[email protected]>
> Reply-To: Gerard Bricogne <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] one datum many data? [was Re: [ccp4bb] very informative
> - Trends in Data Fabrication]
>
> Dear Paul,
>
> May I join the mostly silent chorus of Greek/Latin-aware grumps who
> wince when seeing "data" treated as singular when it is plural. Related
> instances are
>
> * a phenomenon (singular) vs. several phenomena (plural),
>
> * a criterion (singular) vs. several criteria (plural)
>
> and many more.
>
> And then there is the infamous mix-up between "principal" (adjective)
> and "principle" (noun, as in Principle of Least Action, or Peter's
> Principle) giving rise to the favourite hero, the "Principle Investigator".
>
> This phenomena is now so widespread that perhaps compliance with
> ancient Greek or Latin morphology is no longer a relevant criteria ;-) .
>
>
> With best wishes,
>
> Gerard.
>
> --
> On Sun, Apr 01, 2012 at 01:05:10PM +0100, Paul Emsley wrote:
>> The PDBe page for 3k78 says:
>>
>> "The experimental data has been deposited"
>>
>> the data cif file says:
>>
>> "data is under question"
>>
>> Grump.
>>
>> Is it to late to refer to data as if there were more than one of them?
>>
>> Anyway, the data mtz file is here if you want to refine with it:
>>
>> http://lmb.bioch.ox.ac.uk/emsley/data/r3k78sf.mtz
>>
>> Paul.
>
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