the normalization factors for $Q^2 \ge 0.6$ (GeV/$c$)$^2$ are significantly larger than those for low $Q^2$. On the other hand, the normalization factors for the two Saclay experiments with quasiperpendicular kinematics do not agree well with each other either. Therefore, the failure of EMA calculations with NLSH wave functions to reproduce the $p_m$ dependence of data for parallel kinemtics with $T_p \lesssim 100$ MeV seems to be a more serious problem than the variation of normalization factors with $Q^2$. Recognizing that off-shell ambiguities are more serious for parallel kinematics because $x=Q^2/2m \omega$ varies over a wide range and expecting the reaction mechanism to be more reliable for large $Q^2$, we believe that the reaction mechanism for parallel kinematics with $T_p \lesssim 100$ MeV is not sufficiently reliable to justify fitting the bound-state wave function and that it is likely that in such analyses variations of the overlap function would tend to compensate for deficiencies in the reaction model.

If one wants to fit the momentum distribution for a discrete single-hole state to $(e,e^\prime p)$ data, it is probably best to use quasifree kinematics where $(\omega,\bm{q})$ is constant and $Q^2$ is as large as possible. The reliability of the reaction mechanism 