The major points of this paper are: (1) Human Factors (HF) data have no value unless used; (2) the major use of HF data should be quantitative prediction of human performance; (3) predictive methods exist but the data banks to support them do not; (4) HF research should be directed by data bank needs, rather than by researcher idiosyncracy.
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