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[Innocent_Bystander]

@SoundsOfMusic

not bad at specifying what data should be gathered to answer a particular question.

So, as an example, if if the question is what proportion of children eat all their school dinner, you know to count the number of children going into the dining hall, and the number coming out in only 5 min (less time than it takes to eat all the dinner)?

As for spreadsheets, I have found them to be inordinately useful tools, from use as simple databases, to doing complex data analysis with graphical outputs that lay people can understand. I even use Excel as a basic drawing tool for things like speaker design or house plans!

[SoundsOfMusic]

@Innocent_Bystander

if if the question is what proportion of children eat all their school dinner, you know to count the number of children going into the dining hall, and the number coming out in only 5 min (less time than it takes to eat all the dinner)?

Yes, or you could observe them directly, e.g. by eyewitness or video.

Commonly known as ethnography.

You could also try asking them, but obviously that introduces a lot of uncertainties in the data collection.

Or weigh them!

[Innocent_Bystander]

I’d simply ask the kitchen staff, and if greater accuracy needed count the plates with uneaten food emptied into bins

[SoundsOfMusic]

Have you ever used qualitative techniques of data gathering?

[Innocent_Bystander]

I’m not quite sure what exactly you mean, but the type of data would depend on the what I was trying to assess, the purpose, and the precision approptiate.

[Ardbeg10y]

The best scientists:

2x12 Guys make a killer robot

And I prefer a bit of engineering over excel sheet scientists …

[Adam.Meredith]

Finally, after 30+ inexplicable years of absence from the UK, Haagen-Dazs Coffee.

As yet untasted - I hope it lives up to my memory.

Which just requires it to be a decent coffee ice cream without guar gum, cellulose gum and carob bean gum and all the other unnecessaries.

[Pete_the_painter]

Most ice cream is no longer ice cream these days so much so that most by the big multinationals here are classified as ice confection.

[SoundsOfMusic]

@Adam.Meredith

guar gum, cellulose gum and carob bean gum

Yummie!

[Alley_Cat]

Has anyone used this or similar?

Being badgered to get one but I think all ingredients need to be frozen beforehand:

[catswhiskers]

Had a maker when children were at home, possibly Cuisart or Moulinex. Kept the bowl in the freezer, essentially made a custard from egg yolks, cream, sweetened, flavoured. Put it in the frozen bowl, put that in the machine that churned for an hour. Put the bowl back in the freezer, churned again, emptied into a tub to store in the freezer.
Posh, more expensive machines had an inbuilt freezer element.

[Chalshus]

If it is made with egg, it is called parfait and not gelato.

Because of all the fat, it gives a different mouth feel. You can add acid to make it a little lighter. Like lemon peel or some lemon juice.

I use a Nemox gelato maker from time to time.