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The Computer Generated Bull Breeding Soundness Evaluation Form - A Marketing Tool for Theriogenologists or Just Something Pretty to Look At?
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It was apparent by the second semester of my eighth grade year that Sue Ellen Owens was the smartest student in our class. It was obvious that while our teachers admired her a great deal she earned her high grades fairly through a combination of rapt concentration in class, innate intelligence and attention to detail. One of these details was her consistent placement of our English assignments done at home in an attractive binder that distinguished her papers from everyone else’s and surely caught the attention of the teacher, the rest of the class and especially me.
I cannot help thinking of Sue Ellen today as I introduce the Society for Theriogenology computer generated and online Bull Breeding Soundness Evaluation (BSE) form. I am sure that the English homework she produced in the eighth grade would have scored just as high a grade had she turned them in without a binder—just as surely as my work justified its same sub-Sue Ellen result even when I imitated her technique of presenting my themes in an over-the-top folder my father used to present his engineering work—but I wonder when this new form is used are will we be promoting the practice of quality soundness examinations, establishing the standards by which bulls should be measured, encouraging the use of a common, efficient, recognizable and attractive form that will be embraced by a large number of veterinarians and providing a method by which measurements can be learned or enhanced, or are we merely providing to the veterinary consuming public the same uneven and sub- standard work placed in an pretty plastic binder? [...]
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