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\begin{abstract}  The Spin Asymmetries of the Nucleon Experiment (SANE) measured the   parallel, $A_\parallel$, and near-perpendicular, $A_{80}$, double spin   asymmetries in inclusive polarized electron scattering  on a polarized proton. The scattered electrons were detected  using the Big Electron Telescope Array, BETA, which was  centered at 40$^\circ$ and covered a large solid angle.  BETA consisted of a scintillator hodoscope, gas Cherenkov, lucite  hodoscope and a large array of lead glass detectors.  The data was taken at the Thomas  Jefferson Lab National Accelerator Facility's Hall C at beam energies of  $4.7$ and $5.9~GeV$ and covered $2.5~GeV^2 < Q^2 < 6.5~GeV^2$.  From the $A_\parallel$ and $A_{80}$ measurements, the  proton's spin asymmetries, $A_1$ and $A_2$, and the spin  structure functions of the proton, $g_1$ and $g_2$, can be extracted.   The measurements are in a range of Bjorken $x$, $0.3 < x < 0.8$, where  extraction of the twist three matrix element $d_2^p $ (an integral of   $g_1$ and $g_2$ weighted by $x^2$) is most sensitive.  \end{abstract}