What sort of research can usefully be done on computers?
There are two principal types of research uses: • information is collected and processed once for a single study • information is collected and updated for studies at regular intervals or in answer to questions The most useful applications for computer processing are where: • there is a very large volume of information to be checked through, e.g. 10,000 meetings with different characteristics to be evaluated • the volume of information may be much smaller in some cases when the number of calculations to be performed is very great Summary of procedures for such computer-aided research • decide very clearly inadvance what questions must be answered by the survey • produce a schedule so that each possible question can be answered by specifying one unique code or combination of codes. The schedule should correspond to the physical imitations of an 80 column card. Into each column one of approximately 64 characters (0 9 and A Z, etc.) can be punched, so that there is a maximum of 80 charact
