David_Gerard comments on Research methods - Less Wrong

13 Post author: Swimmer963 22 February 2011 06:10AM

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Comment author: David_Gerard 22 February 2011 09:06:14PM 0 points [-]

It looks messy and inefficient to ME that they're keeping both paper and digital records,

See my Australian Electoral Commission example. I can assure you that even a basic image scan is far easier to deal with than all the physical paper all the time. Particularly in 2011 rather than 1993.