Every Decoding is Another Encoding

David Owen

This paper discusses coding in the context of multinational medical studies where the research has been done in several languages across different countries.
  

Every Decoding is Another Encoding*

David Owen Taylor Nelson Healthcare

There is a popular children’s party game called Chinese Whispers. In this game one child whispers a message into the ear of another child who in turn whispers it in to the ear of the next child. After the last child has been told the message he tells the others what he has heard. The game is in seeing just how much the message received at the end of the chain differs from the message that was started off in the first place. Quite often I feel...

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