In order for local law enforcement to get serious about data collection, it may take the dangling of federal dollars.
But serious limitations in data collection mean that the report serves as a barometer and not a comprehensive overview.
"If the management authority is genuinely interested in assessing the status of shark resources, there has to be a serious investment in data collection," the review said, recommending that the observer program be resurrected.
But in 1995, a board reviewing the subsequent progress issued a scathing report calling or better information and transparency and flagging "serious gaps in data collection".
Nonetheless, in this particularly difficult context, we carried-out serious and reliable data collection and analyses, and have shown that despite the difficulties in managing our patients, the outcome is relatively similar when compared with resource-rich settings in terms of duration of hospital stay and mortality rate.
However, a serious limitation of these data collection efforts is that each survey is missing an important component of the educational system in their design – namely, PISA is missing teacher level data and TALIS is missing student level data.
Continued serious suicidality and no serious suicidality included those who report serious suicidality at both or neither data collection points, respectively.
A serious concern associated with online data collection is selection bias, due to non-representativeness of the sample and self-selection of participants.
Another limitation is that we determined what would constitute "serious" disease post hoc, after data collection but before analysis, partly to decrease the potential for bias among the examiners; however we do not expect either of the two definitions we used to be particularly controversial among ophthalmologists.
Indeed, my plans for a final day of data collection faced a serious challenge and required revision or possibly even abandonment.
