Biblical Scope

[Laurence Horn]

At 11:46 AM -0400 8/9/02, Grant Barrett wrote:
>I was interested to see "biblical scope" being used on a National Oceanic
>and Atmospheric Administration page (until I saw that it was reprinted from
>the Annals of Improble Research), and to be defined there as a period of 40
>years. Is this a common term in research involving long-term data?
>
>http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/~schultz/papers/rainmore.html
>http://www.improb.com/airchives/paperair/rainmore.htm
>
>"1.  All investigations that are of biblical scope must, by definition,
>involve 40-year periods."

Knowing the Annals of Improbable Research (formerly the Annals of
Irreproducible Results, with the same acronym), and indeed being an
AIR-head of long standing, I'd bet that this was invented by Dr.
Schultz and is not used outside AIR.

larry