While everybody is hiding from making money out of evaluations I thought that maybe another question that fieldworker might be looking at is the interpretation of an evaluation. This ultimately is the get out that fieldworker that needs to understand and feed back into the perfect how do you do it question
Depends how good you are at interpreting evaluations does it not. Take this piece of string….
Are the interpretations by the end user important-yes and no
this adds to the problem with evaluations is
1) why is there an evaluation in the first place
2) who evaluates the evaluation
3) only then is the archaeologist who undertook the evaluation undertaking the excavation
there are at least three if not four chancers in this play
a) the client
b) the curators
c) the evaluator
d) the excavator
but before taking the great unknown- whats there really there, and the permutaions of the above agents we have to get involved with chicken and egg problems because the consequence that we are leading to is-what is a good Excavation.
Is a good excavation one where the bidder spotted that the evaluation was crap and had totally over sold the archaeology that was there so allowing an outrageous undercutting bid but one that still made 750%
Quote:[SIZE=3]how often to urban evals produce misleading results?[/SIZE]
Depends how good you are at interpreting evaluations does it not. Take this piece of string….
Are the interpretations by the end user important-yes and no
this adds to the problem with evaluations is
1) why is there an evaluation in the first place
2) who evaluates the evaluation
3) only then is the archaeologist who undertook the evaluation undertaking the excavation
there are at least three if not four chancers in this play
a) the client
b) the curators
c) the evaluator
d) the excavator
but before taking the great unknown- whats there really there, and the permutaions of the above agents we have to get involved with chicken and egg problems because the consequence that we are leading to is-what is a good Excavation.
Is a good excavation one where the bidder spotted that the evaluation was crap and had totally over sold the archaeology that was there so allowing an outrageous undercutting bid but one that still made 750%