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> I have friends who set regional records for processing those old forms. I want to say hundreds of thousands of pages or some wild amount like that. Yeah, it'
by dbg31415 4y ago
> I have friends who set regional records for processing those old forms. I want to say hundreds of thousands of pages or some wild amount like that.
Yeah, it's insane! I loved how diligent they were! They take scans of every census record, and all the supporting forms that go into the record... then they distribute the forms to at least 2 independent people to extract data from. If there's a conflict, they send the data to a 3rd person... then they check all the entries against one another for accuracy. Retired folks are encouraged to participate, and it's pretty common for them to get "really" into it. 20-hours a week... pretty common amount of time.
They have to pass an eye exam every year to do it. My grandfather was heartbroken when his eyesight got to the point where he couldn't do it any more.
But yeah, the distributed work, with sanity checks, and conflict resolution baked-in, it was all so well organized!
- themodelplumber 4y agoI didn't know about the eye exams, that's pretty fascinating. It kind of reminds me of some of the senior couples that were driving church vehicles abroad in mission territory...one of those couples got their car stuck in a narrowing alley (all dented up by literal alley walls, and bits of infrastructure on the walls) within the first week, then within the first month the trunk was held mostly-shut with rope. It looked like a wreck on wheels, having very recently been new...but by god could that same driver tell a Japanese fairy tale in a way that got kids SO excited. Funny memories.