We believe that the range of our roles and our close collaboration has made it possible for us to maintain a critical and thoughtful attitude towards data collection and analysis.
Success in meeting the research goals depends on thoughtful planning of field methods and ancillary data collection, selection of telemetry equipment appropriate to the study animal and budget, careful execution of the field protocols, and creative analysis of the data.
Harmonisation of environmental measures across studies, however, needs more thoughtful discussion in the field, and new data collection efforts should aim for harmonisation with other studies (e.g., PhenX Toolkit; Hamilton & Tabitha, 2014).
It also means being thoughtful about how gender relations more broadly may influence the effectiveness of the programme, data collection and analysis.
The authors wish to thank Gabriella Musacchia and Catherine Fábián for their assistance with stimulus creation and data collection, as well as Jennifer Krizman, Trent Nicol, Richard Ashley, Bharath Chandrasekaran and two anonymous reviewers for their thoughtful comments on an earlier version of the manuscript.
This does create potential havoc for the design of data collection and analytic plans, but it has the advantage of ensuring that participants are thoughtful about the specifics of their privacy.
A major reflection of the course instructor that directed our data collection was that during the implementation of the adapted-teaching version students asked more thoughtful questions in class compared with previous years.
The pre-publication history for this paper can be accessed here: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2334/13/361/prepub We acknowledge study nurse Randi Olsen (data collection), Terje Aspenes (laboratory work), Bente Træen, PHD (questionnaire design), and Henrik Schirmer, PHD (analyses and thoughtful manuscript review).
So why the underinvestment in data collection?
For systemic problems, data collection is important.
