[Year 12 Its] Re: Internal documentation

[Kevin Feely]

Hi Rob
Well my version of primary/secondary is certainly at odds with yours Rob!
In that the classification of primary and secondary is not changed 
because of who views it.
Now what?
Kevin

robertw wrote:

> Hi folks, sorry to drop in at this late stage, but the interpretation 
> of primary and secondary data I put to my students, was that the data 
> had to be first interpretted as having a purpose to aid decision 
> making. In other words primary data was collected data that was not in 
> a form that aided the decision makers directly, but after being 
> processed in a certain way, and could then be called secondary data, 
> it is was in state to aid decision making.
> Hence what might be primary data to some people, could be secondary to 
> to others.
> For example the synoptic weather chart in the newspaper may be 
> secondary data to a family deciding whether to go the beach tomorrow, 
> but for a farmer deciding on when to plant crops, the same chart may 
> be considered primary data, as many of them may need to be collected 
> and processed before the farmer can decide what to do.
> So unless the primary and secondary notion is placed in a context that 
> makes these distinctions clearly apparent then no end of confusion 
> will result.
> Cheers,
> Rob Ward
> ICT and Electronics
> Curriculum Coordinator
> Lakes Entrance Secondary College
>