Reading a breed technical sheet and a publication: sorting true from false
A farmer arrives with his strain's technical sheet: "Look, at 42 days they should weigh 3 kg, mine weigh 2.1: I was sold bad chicks." Another shows a publication on his phone: "This additive increases weight by 12%, I am going to buy it." In both cases the document may be accurate, and the conclusion is wrong, because neither has read the conditions written in small print: the temperature, the density, the feed, the number of birds in the trial, who paid for the study. The expert knows how to read these documents the way one reads a contract: first the assumptions, then the figures. This lesson teaches you to do it, with two guided readings.
13 min read · 5-question quiz at the end
By Abdul Hussein ChoumanFounder of NEXTEKCI · Agnibilékrou hatchery since 2006This lesson is part of Level 15 — Expert adviser: project, audit and passing it on. It opens to registered students who have passed the level 14 exam. Levels 1 to 5 and the tracks remain readable by everyone.
- ✓Read a strain technical sheet: spot the assumed rearing conditions and translate the objectives for an open-sided house in Côte d’Ivoire
- ✓Tell apart, in a publication, the abstract, the method, the results and the conclusion, and know where the assumptions hide
- ✓Apply a list of eight questions to sort a technical piece of information as true, doubtful or false
- ✓Explain to a farmer why an accurate figure in a document can be wrong for his farm