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Straightline International Makes Record Search Turnaround Time Calculations As Easy As Clicking A Bu

March 01, 2011 posted by Steve Brownstein

My brother, Dennis, is some kind of engineering genius.  While, as a kid,  he was building intricate plastic models, one particularly of a large to-scale aircraft carrier, I was busy planning to see from how high I had to drop a bowling pin to crack the carrier in half once it was afloat.  More on why or how I even got the bowling pin some other time.

Dennis has now devised a turnaround table that is truly astounding.  This turnaround table is another of his engineering feats, not an aircraft carrier mind you, but definitely a large scale undertaking.

It behooves (wasn't this a good time to use that word?) you to take advantage of this tool.

So every time you need to quote your customer you can tell how long it will take a search to be completed.

 It starts with a bell shaped curve that is called normal distribution.  There is the middle of the curve, which is called the mean and then there is how tightly the data is packed around the middle.  That is called the standard distribution.

Are you a math whiz?  No?   I'm not either but I'll try to explain it in plain old english.

Simply, it means the closer the data (in this case returned search results) to the center of the curve (the mean), the smaller the standard deviation. Which is good for you because it is very easy to calculate that your search will be returned close to the center of the curve.

At a presentation in New Delhi, India, Tejas Sanghvi of Supersoft, was so impressed with Dennis' formula; that it was absolutely the best he ever has ever seen.  "Please leave me a copy," I remember Tejas saying.

Now, Dennis (and I) do not expect you to do the math. That's why we have computers and guys like Dennis who can calculate it with pencil and paper. In fact, Dennis has made it so simple that all you have to do is click a button.

 Go to your Straightline Online-Account and test ride the system. Check one of your searches, the formula is built into the ETA table. It's also built into the pricing and turnaround table.

Dennis can explain it much better than I.  He can even tell you how the standard deviation is built into the table and that the turnaround time reflects an exact calculation of the last 90 days of search results for that jurisdiction. That's why I have mentioned his name so much (and also to let him know how sorry I am for destroying his aircraft carrier).

You can contact Dennis Brownstein at 1-866-909-6678 or E-mail him at dennisb@search4crime.com

As far as the bowling pin goes, didn't everyone as a kid make a bowling alley in their backyard?

 

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