On 2/19/07, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Christiano Moreschi wrote:
So, it might be worth seeing whether something similar could work with this List of Tall Men. Is this at al possible?
Alternatively, something to think about might be a list of World Record Holders for height, or something similar. But the current arbitrary definition of x.y metres is not really acceptable. Arbitrary definitions are original research.
Definitions aren't research at all, and all definitions are arbitrary. Let's avoid expanding the idea of original research beyond what it was intended to do.
Creating "new knowledge" is OR. While a definition cannot, in and of itself be OR, using coming up with a new definition for "tall" (2.5-3 sd + 6 cm) is OR, all the more so when it applies a modified paediatric definition of "tall" to adults.