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I am duly chastized. I guess I had forgotten that the scanning is done automatically. I suppose that I sounded like a 'cry baby' but with a life time of taking tests I think I may have become too focused on the tests and lost sight of the main goal. Thanks for all of the replies.

I am convinced that the team are not handy with microscopes. Movie No 2311928V1 has a particle in a trough below the main surface and it comes into focus above the surface upon which it rests. It is these inconsistencies that I find so frustrating and the reason that I quit last year.

For fun I reviewed the tutorial movies. I really question the last two examples. The candidate in the next to the last one has two particals come in to view below the candidate. I could not discern any difference between them. As for the last one, at the area of the candidate the surface is at a dif...

One would think that the team would address the frequent objections to scoring which is quite wrong or marginal at best. Such as counting as tracks dark bits of material which are definitely in focus above the surface. Even though many on the team are volunteers there should be better training or a ...

HI. pulled up the No. you listed in your post. For what it's worth I found nothing.

Thanks Gresgson. I will scrutinize the errors more closely. However, I still wonder if there is a grading consensus among the team or whether each grade is determined by different individuals, which leaads to variations in interpretations.

I quit several months ago because of what I perceeved as irregularaities in scoring. It seemed that there was no agreement with those that could be called a coin toss. I am now finding the same thing. Where there is a vague indication one time it is scored as a track while another time the same thin...

Why does it take so long (I have waited 9 min. with no connection) to connect with support? Are the answers to calibration movies chanaged? I answered Movie 5001412 as having a track and was scored correct. When it came up again (against my instincts) I recorded a track because of earlier scoring. B...

dustbuster I did get your image no problem. I scanned several times before I saw what you did. I would never have picked it our if you had not indicated what and where. Thanks. I will see if I can bring up the other images that didn't work before. Why yours?

I am not a computer nerd. Messages ask what someone else thinks of some traact click. When I click on ' image' I get the page but no image. What must I do? I use I. Explorer

I find it distressing when the determinations of test sections are judged differenty when when targets are practically the same-one time a tract and another no tract. Some, it seems to me, are just a flip of a coin. For those that are iffy perhaps two or even three team members should look at it. A ...

I do not fully understand what is happening here. Does the gel close in over an entering partical? If not why do most of the tracts come into focus beneath the syrface? Do they come in at an angle? If the gel does not close over then why are some of the surface openings that penetrate a ways and hav...

If more than one investigator reads the slides it seems to me that individual interpretation brings in a possibility for error. I challenge some of the results in the calibration slides. Wasn't smart enough to record the numbers.