It's a little bit different. For COSEWIC, speaking on behalf of COSEWIC, there the.... I guess in some ways it is similar in that the scientists on the committee will decide what are the best data that we need in order to understand what the status of the species is. Those data are very often, as we've heard, citizen science data. In the case of birds, there's citizen science data in just about every single status report we ever do on birds. Much of it is of the kind that you've already heard about.
As a research scientist, there I have.... Well, it's a similar sort of decision. It's something that I and my co-authors would do. We'd say, “Are these the right data to answer our question?” Then we'd just make that decision on our own.