It make her laugh in spite of herself. "Alright, man, you asked for it," with a bit of a lingering grin, even if it's rueful.
"So. The partner back home I mentioned, Delphine. Let's ... OK, shit, this involved a lot of complicated parts and I gotta sort out which ones you need to understand. So. Almost all of the clones were in the general population, unaware of our origins. The people who designed this experiment, they wanted us to be exposed to a whole range of environmental factors and they wanted that exposure to be indistinguishable from how a non-clone would experience them. Close as they could get at least. But. You've probably spotted the problem with that from an experiment design point of view, right? If you've got individuals in your study all over the world and they don't know they're in your experiment, how do you get data? I assume in countries with less robust privacy laws, they were just out here harvesting stuff from routine medical appointments, but hard to do that in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., France, etc. without drawing unwanted attention."
She shifts, tucking one of her legs up and letting the other swing free. "Enter the concept of monitors. You get people involved in the experiment to insert themselves into clones' lives to get close to them. Friend, roommate, romantic partner, whatever makes sense. And once you're close enough a clone will let her guard down with you, clandestine measurements. I don't know who all of mine were but I found out at least one of my exes was." So, you know. That's fine and normal. And this is all still setup.
orphan black spoilers but also: S3 aired 9 years ago, what have you been doing
"So. The partner back home I mentioned, Delphine. Let's ... OK, shit, this involved a lot of complicated parts and I gotta sort out which ones you need to understand. So. Almost all of the clones were in the general population, unaware of our origins. The people who designed this experiment, they wanted us to be exposed to a whole range of environmental factors and they wanted that exposure to be indistinguishable from how a non-clone would experience them. Close as they could get at least. But. You've probably spotted the problem with that from an experiment design point of view, right? If you've got individuals in your study all over the world and they don't know they're in your experiment, how do you get data? I assume in countries with less robust privacy laws, they were just out here harvesting stuff from routine medical appointments, but hard to do that in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., France, etc. without drawing unwanted attention."
She shifts, tucking one of her legs up and letting the other swing free. "Enter the concept of monitors. You get people involved in the experiment to insert themselves into clones' lives to get close to them. Friend, roommate, romantic partner, whatever makes sense. And once you're close enough a clone will let her guard down with you, clandestine measurements. I don't know who all of mine were but I found out at least one of my exes was." So, you know. That's fine and normal. And this is all still setup.