There is a term that medical ethicists use to describe this kind of data handling, which is pseudonymised. That’s the term they should have used. Anonymised is just wrong.

Apparently they got my name, address, and date of birth from the NHS.

Excuse me?

I don’t remember giving the NHS my permission to share that kind of data with third parties. I shall be finding out who the NHS data controller is and having a word. They claim that it’s compliant with the data protection act, but I find that hard to believe.

Sorry, this may be a worthy research project, but they have just totally destroyed any chance they may have had of my trusting them.

However, in the same family there might be 3 or 4 generations still living. Whilst the structure of the family tree is complicated, the behaviour of the members of the family would almost certainly be complex. i.e. the behaviour of the members of the family as a system emerges as a consequence of their interactions.

Looking at any single member and their direct relationships or even individual behaviour would not provide sufficient information or analysis to understand the behaviour of the family system as a whole. To study the whole family you have to study it at a system level and not at an individual member level. In this case, it is even more complex because no single member can have a full perspective and understanding of the family system as a whole. Each brings their own experience, prejudices, partial perspectives and motivations to the mix resulting in behaviours that only emerge due to the interactions between the family members.

Both complex and complicated come form the same word stem which generally means many different connected parts, however as i understand it complicate means make more complex therefore complicated simply means something which has many different interconnected parts which has bean made more so.

Complex generally refers to physical atributes (including behaviour) but complicated can refer to both physical and imaginary, so a situation can be made more complex by rumours or beliefs.

An example would be you can have complex relationships, ie lots of family members taken back 10 gererations can create a very complex family tree, but a complicated relationship, could involve a complex family structure made more complicated by extra parital relationship and family fued that prevent one side of a family talking to another (something that your previous example doesn’t factor into its explanation and that could not be found by examining the parts)

back over to you….
oh my explanation comes in part from the consise oxford english dictionary, couldn’t quite but my finger on the difference without looking both words up.

Why is security so more intense for internal flights than for trains which carry more people? I suspect the answer is ‘because it is’.

You do, however, require Photo ID. I use a driving license.

I’m keen on saving the planet yes – but not via a non transparent process.