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Sampling is a technique at best. Geneticists believe in it. The problem is where you stick your hand in to take the sample. If you miss by a few inches, you never know it. Mathematics is great IF the reality of the situation cooperates. I suspect the lady found some of what she was seeking and slowed her search?
__________________ Ancestors in US Army: 13th TN Cav; 10th TN Cav; 3rd NC Inf
Ancestors in CSA Army: 48th VA; 63rd VA, 5th NC Cav; 37th NC
Wife and Grandson's CSA: 15th AL, 51st GA, 41st TN; 36th TN; GA Mil 1197 Dist
The proof is in the reading. Or was it pudding? I forget.
ole
__________________ I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing that no man desires for himself. A. Lincoln
Look into sampling. In addition to letters and diaries, she used soldiers' camp newspapers. These were newspapers written, printed, and distributed by the soldiers themselves.
Regards,
Cash
Newspapers?
I thought that wasn't allowed.
__________________ POWER & MONEY
"Your New-York bankers and merchants are shrewd people, but I never gave them credit for so much sagacity as when they took the Government Loan. It was not merely patriotism, it was a high stroke of policy. It has saved the Government, and what they will regard as equally important, saved them from a great financial disaster."
Careful. You'll hurt yourself trying to be subtle and obtuse all at the same time.
Unionblue
__________________ "The American people and the Government at Washington may refuse to recognize it for a time but the inexorable logic of events will force it upon them in the end; that the war now being waged in this land is a war for and against slavery." Frederick Douglass
"Loyalty to our ancestors does not include loyalty to their mistakes." George Santayana
Sampling is a technique at best. Geneticists believe in it. The problem is where you stick your hand in to take the sample. If you miss by a few inches, you never know it. Mathematics is great IF the reality of the situation cooperates. I suspect the lady found some of what she was seeking and slowed her search?
No evidence of it. Seems like she took in everything she found, and when she ran out of time to do more research (as everyone does) published what she had. Visited archives in twelve states along the path, probably including the National Archives in DC since she is teaching at Georgetown. I don't have the book with me, so that's from recall.
Regards,
Tim
__________________ "Let us, then, consider all attempts to weaken this Union, by maintaining that each state is separately and individually independent, as a species of political heresy, which can never benefit us, but may bring on us the most serious distresses."
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney of South Carolina, 1740-1824, Revolutionary War soldier, one of the authors of the US Constitution in 1787, speaking at the South Carolina Ratifying Convention in 1788.
Sampling is a technique at best. Geneticists believe in it. The problem is where you stick your hand in to take the sample. If you miss by a few inches, you never know it. Mathematics is great IF the reality of the situation cooperates. I suspect the lady found some of what she was seeking and slowed her search?
You're commenting on a book you haven't read and a methodology you know nothing about.
Sampling can be quite scientific. That's why a poll of a few hundred people can accurately predict the results of a nationwide election the following day.
You're commenting on a book you haven't read and a methodology you know nothing about.
Sampling can be quite scientific. That's why a poll of a few hundred people can accurately predict the results of a nationwide election the following day.
Regards,
Cash
Since you have the book can you inform us what's involved with this "sampling."
__________________ POWER & MONEY
"Your New-York bankers and merchants are shrewd people, but I never gave them credit for so much sagacity as when they took the Government Loan. It was not merely patriotism, it was a high stroke of policy. It has saved the Government, and what they will regard as equally important, saved them from a great financial disaster."
So when you ask for someone to provide the system for sampling about this book, are you saying you haven't read it? I can't recall you saying if you did or didn't. Have you read it?
Unionblue
__________________ "The American people and the Government at Washington may refuse to recognize it for a time but the inexorable logic of events will force it upon them in the end; that the war now being waged in this land is a war for and against slavery." Frederick Douglass
"Loyalty to our ancestors does not include loyalty to their mistakes." George Santayana
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