User talk:Hmccan1

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Huh?
You started an article with this:
 * Morista's overlap index is used to compare overlap among samples (Morista 1959).
 * This formula is based on the assumption that increasing the number of samples will increase the diversity because it will include different habitats (i.e. different faunas).
 * This formula is based on the assumption that increasing the number of samples will increase the diversity because it will include different habitats (i.e. different faunas).

The words "habitats" and "faunas" appear near the end of the second sentence, and suggest that what we're taking samples of is animals. Not widgets coming off an assembly line, not apples, not web pages, not customers of a grocery store chain, but animals. Yet you haven't told us that. It's as if you expect the reader somehow to know that without being told. I'd fix it if I knew anything about the subject. But for now, that's why I've put a "context" tag on the article. Michael Hardy (talk) 03:12, 26 June 2009 (UTC)
 * ...also, I don't find any reference to a paper by Morista published in 1959. What article title, what journal, etc.? Michael Hardy (talk) 03:15, 26 June 2009 (UTC)