Innocent mistakes and frustrating back and forth are also very common, especially for interdisciplinary teams. The mismatch in tooling and workflows and manual

Innocent mistakes and frustrating back and forth are also very common, especially for interdisciplinary teams. The mismatch in tooling and workflows and manual copy & paste conversion is a thing to behold. Add multiple countries and Excel to the mix (dot vs comma, formulas being language specific), maybe have a couple of Chinese, Japanese, Russian or Arabic speking researchers in the group for some extra UTF-8 magic. Line endings on Linux vs. OSX vs. Windows.