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Jun. 18th, 2009 05:02 pmMore new stuff to learn today, including how to code cases of people who've died as a result of falls. As I'd already done two batches of Natural Causes cases in the same format, I boldly ventured into the Falls cases without turning to Simon for guidance...and proceeded to code all twenty cases the wrong way. Having looked at the right answers for the first two, I went through the whole batch again, getting most of them right this time. So I was ready to move on to the trickier second batch - and had mistakes on 13 out of 20 of those, partly because of coding a few of them as 'fell on the same level' since the narrative suggested they did.
Quack Quack Oops. As Simon had told me earlier in the week, never assume. If it's not openly stated in the report that they fell on the same level, then code it 'fell, unspecified'. Since there's no better way to learn than by doing the actual work, I went back to the beginning of the second batch too.
Light relief was provided by my lady colleagues swapping tales of which celebrities they'd met - that was sparked by Bev revealing that she knows where Harry Redknapp lives and sometimes passes his home when she goes down to Sandbanks beach, which prompted cries of 'stalker' from the others. I mentioned that, in my student days, I'd been in a pub in Hull when Paul Heaton walked in, but my friends and I hadn't spoken to him - he was clearly just out for a quiet drink with a couple of pals so we left him in peace. Sadly, perhaps under the influence of doing my second lot of second-time-round coding, my mind then went blank, and I never thought of all the famous names I met during the mayoral year. What a shame.
The watering can calls...
Quack Quack Oops. As Simon had told me earlier in the week, never assume. If it's not openly stated in the report that they fell on the same level, then code it 'fell, unspecified'. Since there's no better way to learn than by doing the actual work, I went back to the beginning of the second batch too.
Light relief was provided by my lady colleagues swapping tales of which celebrities they'd met - that was sparked by Bev revealing that she knows where Harry Redknapp lives and sometimes passes his home when she goes down to Sandbanks beach, which prompted cries of 'stalker' from the others. I mentioned that, in my student days, I'd been in a pub in Hull when Paul Heaton walked in, but my friends and I hadn't spoken to him - he was clearly just out for a quiet drink with a couple of pals so we left him in peace. Sadly, perhaps under the influence of doing my second lot of second-time-round coding, my mind then went blank, and I never thought of all the famous names I met during the mayoral year. What a shame.
The watering can calls...
