What I find tragic about this Cornell Labs report, just like the last one done five or six years ago, is the abysmal ignorance of survey design, measurement theory, and applied statistics. Yet, they have available to them an outstanding
Statistics Department that prides itself on interdisciplinary applications.
It's truly mind boggling. The Stat Dept. even offers
statistical services to researchers within the University.
If they could only get out of their insular nest and interact with the rest of the community, Cornell Labs could actually provide some of the best birding instrument surveys on the planet.