[Foundation-l] Learning about cultural diversity from US diplomacy

Milos Rancic millosh at gmail.com
Mon Sep 5 00:53:14 UTC 2011


On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 20:34, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at fairpoint.net> wrote:
> Leaked cables are primary sources, some of which pose problems because
> they may contain non-public personal identifying information. Generally
> the information in them becomes available for our purposes after they
> have been analyzed by a peer-reviewed secondary source.

This Michael Polt's analysis could be safely treated as secondary
source. It obviously resumes his primary sources and it is in the form
of secondary source, while not quoting primary sources. Besides that,
there are similar works by sociologists in Serbian.



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