[Air-L] Researchers as new eyes on public data

[Jeremy Hunsinger]

the question in my mind hinges on the question as to whether we  
assign capacities and processes to researchers that cannot be found  
in the population in general to some significant degree, even if  
those capacities and processes are foregone.   in short are the  
capacities and processes/practices of research privileged or  
exceptional in some way.  if they are, then perhaps we could  
differentiate effects on the basis of that difference, but  
personally, given the number of people in the world that can do  
exactly the same types of things... i'm not sure we can make any  
valid differentiation.