Data Series Laws

Question 1

Define Sanity

Answer 1

Ability to recognise differences,similarities and identities.

Question 2

Define Fact

Answer 2

Something that can be proven to exist by visible evidence

Question 3

Define Opinion

Answer 3

Something which may or may not be based on any facts.

Question 4

Define Logic

Answer 4

LOGIC means the subject of reasoning

Question 5

How does one establish what is logical?

Answer 5

BY ESTABLISHING THE WAYS IN WHICH THINGS BECOME ILLOGICAL ONE CAN THEN ESTABLISH WHAT IS LOGIC.

Question 6

What does reason depend on?

Answer 6

REASON DEPENDS ON DATA

WHEN DATA IS FAULTY THE ANSWER WILL BE WRONG AND LOOKED UPON AS UNREASONABLE.

Question 7

How can a single datum or a subject be fully understood ?

Answer 7

BY FINDING A DATUM OF COMPARABLE MAGNITUDE TO THE SUBJECT.

Question 8

What is necessary to any Logic system?

Answer 8

DATA ANALYSIS is necessary to ANY logic system and always will be

Question 9

How does one attain valid answers?

Answer 9

VALID ANSWERS MAY ONLY BE ATTAINED IN USING VALID DATA.

Question 10

What are the two systems of analysis?

Answer 10

DATA ANALYSIS, SITUATION ANALYSIS.

Question 11

What are the two steps one must take to find out what is really going on?

Answer 11

1. Analyze the data,

2. Using the data thus analyzed to analyze the situation.

Question 12

What are the 4 rules on collecting data in administrative structures?

Answer 12

NORMAL ADMIN FLOWS CONTAIN ENOUGH DATA TO DO A DATA AND SITUATION ANALYSIS.

And THE LESS DATA YOU HAVE THE MORE PRECISE YOUR ANALYSIS MUST BE.

And INDICATORS MUST BE WATCHED FOR IN ORDER TO UNDERTAKE A SITUATION ANALYSIS.

And A SITUATION ANALYSIS ONLY INDICATES THE AREA THAT HAS TO BE CLOSELY INSPECTED AND HANDLED.

Question 13

How do you determine a target for correction?

Answer 13

We obtain an analysis of the situation by analysing all the data we have and assigning the out point data to the areas or parts. The area having the most outpoints is the target for correction.

Question 14

What is the correct sequence to follow in doing a data analysis and situation analysis?

Answer 14

1. Have a normal information flow available.
2. Observe.
3. When a bad indicator is seen, become very alert.
4. Do a data analysis.
5. Do a situation analysis.
6. Obtain more data by direct inspection of the area indicated by the situation analysis.
7. Handle.

Question 15

What are the two bad systems in current use on data?

Answer 15

The first is ‘ reliable source ‘

The second is multiple report.

Question 16

What is the rule on familiarity?

Answer 16

A person must have an ideal scene with which to compare the existing scene.

Question 17

What is the Cycle of Observation?

Answer 17

First is a means of PERCEPTION whether by remote communication by various comm lines or by direct looking, feeling, experiencing.

Second is an IDEAL of how the scene or area should be.

Third is FAMILIARITY with how such scenes are when things are going well or poorly.

Fourth is understanding PLUSPOINTS or rightnesses when present.

Fifth is knowing OUTPOINTS (all 5 types) when they appear.

Sixth is rapid ability to ANALYZE DATA.

Seventh is the ability to ANALYZE the SITUATION.

Eighth is the willingness to INSPECT more closely the area of outness.

Then one has to have the knowledge and imagination necessary to HANDLE. One could call the above the CYCLE OF OBSERVATION. If one calls HANDLE number 9 it would be the Cycle of Control.

Question 18

What is a Fixed Idea and how does it affect sanity?

Answer 18

A fixed idea is something accepted without personal inspection or agreement. It is the perfect “ authority knows best”
A fixed idea is uninspected. It blocks the existence of any contrary observation.

Question 19

What is the law behind a rational ideal?

Answer 19

The purpose of that activity must be part of the ideal one has for that activity.

Question 20

What is the law regarding the urge to improve an activity?

Answer 20

THE FACT THAT SOMETHING IS ACTUALLY OPERATING AND SOLVENT CAN OUTWEIGH THE UNTESTED ADVANTAGES OF CHANGING IT.

Question 21

What can occur when someone begins to use illogics without drilling them so they can rattle them off?

Answer 21

Many who begin to use “illogics,” who have not drilled on them so they can rattle them off, choose errors instead of outpoints.

Question 22

What is the biggest “omitted data”?

Answer 22

The biggest “omitted data” would be the whole scene. A person who does not know how the scene should be can thereafter miss most of the outpoints in it

Question 23

How do you classify data?

Answer 23

Data classifies in similar connections or similar locations. A body of data is associated by the subject to which it is applicable or by the geographical area to which it belongs.

Question 24

What is a Situation?

Answer 24

A SITUATION IS A MAJOR DEPARTURE FROM THE IDEAL SCENE. This means a wide and significant or dangerous or potentially damaging CIRCUMSTANCE or STATE OF AFFAIRS which means that the IDEAL SCENE has been departed from and doesn’t fully exist in that area.

Question 25

How do you find a Situation?

Answer 25

1. Observe.
2. Notice an oddity of any kind or none.
3. Establish what the ideal scene would be for what is observed.
4. Count the outpoints now visible.
5. Following up the outpoints observe more closely.
6. Establish even more simply what the ideal scene would be.
7. The situation will be THE MOST MAJOR DEPARTURE FROM THE IDEAL SCENE.

Question 26

How does one establish what an ideal scene should be for any activity?

Answer 26

The entire concept of an ideal scene for any activity is really a clean statement of its PURPOSE. All one has to ask is “What’s the purpose of this?” and one will be able to work out what the ideal scene of “this” is.

Question 27

What are the only sound measure of any production , post or activity?

Answer 27

Statistics are the only sound measure of any production or any job or any activity.

Question 28

How does one fully resolve a situation?

Answer 28

In order to resolve a situation fully one has to get the real reason WHY a departure from the ideal scene occurred. “What was changed?” or “What changed?” is the same question.
The action was always:
1. Observe the decline.
2. Locate the exact change which had been made.
3. Revert THE change.
4. A return to the near ideal scene would occur if one were maintaining the ideal scene meanwhile.

Question 29

What are the three assumptions that should be studied,observed and fully grasped regarding ideal scenes ?

Answer 29

Any and all irrationality is connected to departures from an ideal scene.
Therefore outpoints indicate departures.
It must follow then that rationality is connected to an ideal scene.
These three assumptions should be studied, observed and fully grasped.

Question 30

What can happen if one fails to work out a correct ideal scene when evaluating?

Answer 30

One’s direction is lost to the degree one fails to work out the ideal scene.

It is so easy to toss off an “ideal scene” that is not the ideal scene that one can begin with a false premise.

As he tries to work with an incorrect “ideal scene” for an activity he may fail and grow discouraged without recognizing that he is already working with an omitted datum—the real ideal scene for that activity

Question 31

What is the test of whether you have an ideal scene or not ?

Answer 31

There is however a test of whether you have the ideal scene or not.

Can you staticize it?

THE CORRECTLY STATED IDEAL SCENE WILL HAVE A PRODUCTION STATISTIC

Question 32

What is the most dangerous worker-manager way to work or manage?

Answer 32

By actual experience in working and managing in many activities, I can state flatly that the most dangerous worker-manager thing to do is to work or manage from something else than statistics

Question 33

In a chaos what is necessary to set up before one can really decide anything much less get anything done ?

Answer 33

In a chaos it is necessary to set up one point or terminal which is stable before one can really decide anything much less get anything done.

A statistic is such a stable point. One can proceed from it and use it to the degree that it is a correct statistic.

One can detect, then, when things start to go wrong well before they crash.

Question 34

What happens when you use opinion or random rumours or reports instead of statistics?

Answer 34

Using opinion or random rumors or reports one can go very wrong indeed. In fact, using these without knowing the statistics one can smash a life or crash a group

Question 35

What is the whole reason one does a data analysis and situation analysis?

Answer 35

Outpoints are more than useful in prediction.

The whole reason one does a data analysis and a situation analysis is to predict

Question 36

What is a wrong target?

Answer 36

This means in effect AN INCORRECT SELECTION OF AN OBJECTIVE TO ATTEMPT OR ATTACK

Question 37

What is THE basic skill behind any intelligent action?

Answer 37

All this boils down to CORRECT INVESTIGATION. It is not a slight skill. It is THE basic skill behind any intelligent action.

Question 38

What has occurred when justice goes astray?

Answer 38

When justice goes astray (as it usually does) the things that have occurred are:

1. Use of justice for some other purpose than public safety (such as maintaining a privileged group or indulging a fixed idea) or
2. Investigatory procedure.

Question 39

What is the primary block to investigation?

Answer 39

Altered sequence is a primary block to investigation.

Question 40

What pulls an investigation along?

Answer 40

At first glance, omitted data would seem to be the block. On the contrary, it is the end product of an investigation and is what pulls an investigation along—one is looking for omitted data.

Question 41

What does all betterment of life depend on?

Answer 41

All betterment of life depends on finding out pluspoints and why and reinforcing them, locating outpoints and why and eradicating them.

Question 42

In investigating how does one find out what to observe?

Answer 42

The way to observe so as to find out what to observe is by discarding areas.
One looks broadly at the whole scene. Then discards sections of it that would seem unrewarding. He will then find himself left with the area that contains the key to it

Question 43

What happens when a man is not predicting?

Answer 43

When a man is not predicting, he is often subjected to outpoints that leap up at him. Conversely, when outpoints leap up at one unexpectedly he knows he better do more than gape at them. He is already behindhand in investigating. Other signs earlier existed which were disregarded.

Question 44

What happens when one follows the cycle of “outpoint,correct. Outpoint,correct”?

Answer 44

The cycle of “Outpoint, correct. Outpoint, correct. Outpoint, correct” will drown one rapidly and improve nothing! But it sure makes a lot of useless work and worry.

Question 45

What is omitted data?

Answer 45

An omitted anything is an outpoint.

This can be an omitted person, terminal, object, energy, space, time, form, sequence or even an omitted scene. Anything that can be omitted that should be there is an outpoint.

Question 46

What is Altered sequence?

Answer 46

Any things, events, objects, sizes, in a wrong sequence is an outpoint.

Sequence means linear (in a line) travel either through space or time or both.

A sequence that should be one and isn’t is an outpoint.

A “sequence” that isn’t but is thought to be one is an outpoint.

A cart-before-the-horse out of sequence is an outpoint.

Question 47

What is dropped time?

Answer 47

Time that should be noted and isn’t would be an outpoint of “dropped time.”

It is a special case of an omitted datum.

Question 48

What is a falsehood?

Answer 48

When you hear two facts that are contrary, one is a falsehood or both are.

Willful or unintentional, a falsehood is an outpoint. It may be a mistake or a calculated or defensive falsehood and it is still an outpoint.

A false anything qualifies for this outpoint. A false being, terminal, act, intention, anything that seeks to be what it isn’t is a falsehood and an outpoint.

So the falsehood means “other than it appears” or “other than represented.”

Question 49

What is altered importance?

Answer 49

An importance shifted from its actual relative importance, up or down, is an outpoint. Something can be assigned an importance greater than it has.

Something can be assigned an importance less than it has.

A number of things of different importances can be assigned a monotone of importance. These are all outpoints, three versions of the same thing.

Question 50

What is wrong target?

Answer 50

Mistaken objective wherein one believes he is or should be reaching toward A and finds he is or should be reaching toward B is an outpoint.

This is commonly mistaken identity. It is also mistaken purposes or goals.

Question 51

What is a real Why?

Answer 51

WHY = that basic outness found which will lead to a recovery of stats.

Question 52

What is a Wrong Why?

Answer 52

WRONG WHY = the incorrectly identified outness which when applied does not lead to recovery.

Question 53

What is a mere explanation?

Answer 53

A MERE EXPLANATION = a “Why” given as THE Why that does not open the door to any recovery.

Question 54

What is the test of a real Why?

Answer 54

The test of the real WHY is “When it is corrected, do stats recover?”

Question 55

What is wrong source?

Answer 55

“Wrong source” is the other side of the coin of wrong target.

Information taken from wrong source, orders taken from the wrong source, gifts or materiel taken from wrong source all add up to eventual confusion and possible trouble.

Question 56

What are contrary facts?

Answer 56

When two statements are made on one subject which are contrary to each other, we have “contrary facts.”

Previously we classified this illogic as a falsehood, since one of them must be false.

But in doing data analysis one cannot offhand distinguish which is the false fact. Thus it becomes a special outpoint

Question 57

What action should be taken on a student when he can’t grasp or retain the Data Series?

Answer 57

Whenever a student cannot grasp or retain the data of the DATA SERIES policy letters, he must be audited on the Data Series Rundown (also called the HC OutpointPluspoint Lists).

The reason for this is that he himself has OUTPOINTS and it is necessary to audit him on this subject.

Question 58

What is the reason behind the downfall of beings and activities ?

Answer 58

The inability to observe and find an actual usable WHY is the downfall of beings and activities. This is factually the WHY of people not finding WHYS and using them.

The prevalence of historical man’s use of “fate,” “kismet” (fatalism), superstition, fortunetelling, astrology and mysticism confirms this.

Question 59

What does one know if he is sinking into apathy over his inability to get his job done ?

Answer 59

If one finds he is sinking into apathy over his inability to get his job done, it is certain that he is operating on self-conceived wrong WHYS in areas that he cannot ever hope to control.

Question 60

What is The Why?

Answer 60

The Why is NOT God. It lies with YOU and your ability to be logical.

God helps those who help themselves.

Question 61

What is the proper format to write up an evaluation in?

Answer 61

Situation:
Data:
Stats:
Why:
Ideal Scene:
Handling:

Question 62

What is the first step that needs to occur to do an evaluation?

Answer 62

First, to do an evaluation, some situation must have come to notice. There is a report or observation that is out of the ordinary.

This “coming to notice” occurs on any line. Usually it is fairly major, affecting a large portion of the area, but it can be minor.

So OBSERVATION in general must be continuous for situations to be noted.

Question 63

What is the hallmark of a rank amateur or idiot as regards evaluation?

Answer 63

It is the hallmark of a rank amateur or idiot to act on reports without any evaluation

Question 64

What is data and how is it used ?

Answer 64

Data is the information one has received that alerts one to the situation.

If one does not court disaster and failures, one does NOT rely on reports, but an absence of reports or a volume of reports carefully surveyed for outpoints and counted.

To do this one must be VERY skilled at spotting outpoints. Most people confuse simple errors with actual outpoints.

Essentially, “data” regarded from the angle of outpoints is a lack of consistency. “Our Div 2 is doing very well” doesn’t go with gross income $2.

DATA, then, is the Sherlock Holming of the trail that gave the WHY. It at once reflects the command the evaluator has of the DATA SERIES. And his own cleverness.

Question 65

What must one inspect before any action or recommendations are given ?

Answer 65

The main point is DON’T ACT WITHOUT STATISTICAL DATA

DO NOT give a Why or recommend handling without inspecting the actual stats.

Question 66

What must the Why lead towards ?

Answer 66

the WHY must be something which YOU CAN DO SOMETHING ABOUT YOURSELF FROM YOUR LEVEL OF AUTHORITY OR INITIATIVE that will lead to THE IMPROVEMENT OF A POOR EXISTING SCENE TOWARD THE IDEAL SCENE.

The WHY is a special thing then. It is a key that opens the door to effective improvement.

Question 67

Why does an evaluator need an ideal scene for every situation?

Answer 67

By giving the IDEAL SCENE for every situation, the evaluator is not led into a fatal contempt for the competence of all work actually being done.

The ideal scene clarifies for one and all whither we are going.

Question 68

What are the key aspects in the Handling step of an evaluation?

Answer 68

Handling must be CONSISTENT with the Situation, the evaluation, the Why and the Ideal Scene.

Handling must be WITHIN THE CAPABILITIES of those who will do the actions. Handling must be WITHIN THE RESOURCES AVAILABLE.

Handling quite often but not always requires a BRIGHT IDEA. It is peculiarly true that the less the resources available the brighter the idea required to attain effective handling.

Handling must be SUPERVISED by one person who acts as a coordinator of the program and a checker-offer and debug expert.

And last but most important handling must be EFFECTIVE AND FINAL.

Question 69

What part does Review play in an evaluation?

Answer 69

Thus a sharp watch has to be set. No thirst for “always being right” or arrogance about never being wrong must prevent an honest review.

WAS the ideal scene approached or attained?

Or was it a wrong Why and now is all Hades breaking loose?

Now we don’t have just renewed insistence that the WHY was right and that the program must go in in spite of all.

We have a wrong Why.

Question 70

How will people react when you have a real why?

Answer 70

IT WILL BE FOUND THAT WHERE YOU HAVE A REAL WHY PEOPLE WILL COOPERATE ALL OVER THE SCENE.

Question 71

What is policy?

Answer 71

POLICY: By this is meant long-range truths or facts which are not subject to change expressed as operational rules or guides.

Question 72

What are plans ?

Answer 72

PLANS: Short-range broad intentions as to the contemplated actions envisaged for the handling of a broad area to remedy it or expand it or to obstruct or impede an opposition to expansion. A plan is usually based on observation of potentials (or resources) and expresses a bright idea of how to use them. It always proceeds from a REAL WHY if it is to be successful.

Question 73

What is a program ?

Answer 73

PROGRAM: A series of steps in sequence to carry out a plan. One usually sees a program following the discovery of a Why. But in actual fact a plan had to exist in the person’s mind, whether written or not, before a program could be written. A program, thus, carries out the plan conceived to handle a found WHY. A plan and its program require authorization (or okay) from the central or coordinating authority of the general activities of a group before they can be invested in, activated or executed

Question 74

What is a project?

Answer 74

PROJECTS: The sequence of steps written to carry out ONE step of a program. Project orders often have to be written to execute a program step. These should be written but usually do not require any approval and often are not generally issued but go to the person or persons who will accomplish that step of a program. Under the category of PROJECT would come orders, work projects, etc. These are a series of GUIDING STEPS which if followed will result in a full and successful accomplishment of the program target.

Question 75

What are the 3 points to a perfect debug evaluation?

Answer 75

The PERFECT DEBUG EVALUATION (a) gets the target done, (b) improves the area, (c) leaves no dregs of human emotion and reaction behind it.

Question 76

What are the 11 barriers to using data analysis in order of frequency?

Answer 76

1. Misunderstood words.
2. The person has himself an outpoint in his routine thinking.
3. Lack of knowledge of an existing or an ideal scene.
4. Not having studied the Data Series
5. Not having studied data analysis from the viewpoint of needing to apply it.
6. Thinking one already knows about analysing and data. Handled by looking over some past failures and realising they could have been prevented by a proper collection of data and analysing it.
7. Tossing off “reasons” personally on one’s own personal area which are usually just excuses or justifications and not Whys. “I was too tired”, “ I should have been tougher,”
   “They were just bums anyway,” which loads up ones life with wrong Whys. Handled by being more alert to and more honest about causes and motives of ones’s life and the scene, and doing a better analysis.
8. Confusing errors with outpoints. Handled by practice.
9. Confusing outpoints with Whys. Handled by learning to observe and better study of data analysis.
10. Too narrow a situation. Handled by getting more data and observing the scene more broadly.
11. Missing “omitted data” or particles or people as a frequent outpoint. Handled by knowing the ideal scene better. What should be there and isn’t.

Question 77

What is the sure-fire standard action one can take in evaluating a situation?

Answer 77

1. Work out exactly what the (person, unit, activity) should be producing.
2. Work out the ideal scene.
3. Investigate the existing scene.
4. Follow outpoints back from ideal to existing.
5. Locate the real WHY that will move the existing toward ideal.
6. Look over existing resources.
7. Get a bright idea of how to handle.
8. Handle or recommend handling so that it stays handled.

Question 78

What is the test of an evaluator?

Answer 78

Man gets dedicated to his own pet theories very easily. A true scientist doesn’t fixate on one idea. He keeps looking until he finds it, not until his pet theory is proven. That’s the test of an evaluator.

Question 79

What are the two areas that are likely not to get much attention from an evaluator when evaluating a scene?

Answer 79

In any scene being evaluated, there are two areas which are not likely to get much attention from the evaluator as they may not be remarked on in any of the reports or data being used in his evaluation. These two types of area are (1) LOCAL ENVIRONMENT and (2) RELAY POINTS AND LINES BETWEEN POLICY AND ORDER SOURCE AND THE SCENE ITSELF.

These two areas may be looked at as (1) the plane upon which the scene exists and (2) the upper stages of authority under which the scene reacts.

Question 80

In checking over the evaluations of others what are the 4 hard and fast rules to follow?

Answer 80

In checking over the evaluations of others, there is no substitute for following the hard and fast rule of insisting upon:

a. Purity of evaluation,
b. Consistency,
c. Workability,
d. Authenticity of the data.

Question 81

What do you know if you can ask the question “How come”?

Answer 81

That’s all fine but you can ask of it, “How come they’re doing that?” so it couldn’t be a bottom-level Why. Anytime you can ask a “How come?” you haven’t got a Why, you have a situation.

Question 82

What is Added time?

Answer 82

In this outpoint we have the reverse of dropped time. In added time we have, as the most common example, something taking longer than it possibly could. To this degree it is a version of conflicting data = something takes three weeks to do but it is reported as taking six months. But added time must be called to attention as an outpoint in its own right for there is a tendency to be reasonable about it and not see that it IS an outpoint in itself.

Question 83

What is Added Inapplicable Data?

Answer 83

Just plain added data does not necessarily constitute an outpoint. It may be someone being thorough. But when the data is in no way applicable to the scene or situation and is added it is a definite outpoint.

Question 84

What is Wrong Source?

Answer 84

This is the opposite direction from wrong target.

An example would be a president of the United States in 1973 using the opinions and congratulations of Soviet leaders to make his point with American voters.

Question 85

What is the iron bound rule in handling things?

Answer 85

There is an ironbound rule in handling things:

WHERE YOU FIND OUTPOINTS, YOU WILL THERE ALSO FIND A SITUATION

Question 86

Why are people “reasonable” about illogical and intolerable situations?

Answer 86

One often wonders why people are so “reasonable” about intolerable and illogical situations.

The answer is very simple: they cannot recognize outpoints when they see them and so try to make everything seem logical.

Question 87

What is the first, foremost and most usual reason evaluations fail?

Answer 87

The first, foremost and most usual reason evaluations fail is because the programs to handle are not done.

Question 88

How does an evaluator establish his repute?

Answer 88

But if one’s repute as an evaluator is to be established, it will come about because:

THE EXISTING SCENE MOVED UP MARKEDLY TOWARD OR BECAME THE IDEAL SCENE.

Question 89

What are the 5 points that a successful evaluation needs to attain the ideal scene?

Answer 89

Therefore, the success of an evaluation in attaining an ideal scene depends in no small measure on:

1. Both evaluator and target executor realizing policy and technical materials are senior to targets in programs and that targets do not set senior policy aside. One of the best ways to prevent this is to know and refer to policy and technical issues in targets.
2. Targets must be written in context with the evaluation and done in context with the ideal scene. The best way to achieve this in writing an eval’s targets is to make them consistent with the Why and ideal scene. The best way to be sure that targets will be DONE in context is to require that anyone doing a target must first read the whole evaluation (and be word cleared on it) before he does his target so that he does his target in a way to improve the existing scene in the eval not some other scene.
3. To prevent false evaluation, one may require that the evaluator attests that all pertinent data and statistics have been examined and to discipline such failures whenever an evaluation fails.
4. To prevent false dones, one must review the evidence of dones and statistics after the program is complete and discipline all falsely reporting persons and reassign the targets or in any way possible get them actually done.
5. The way to get a whole program done, target by target, is through personal contact. Supervise it by personal contact with those assigned the targets. Or use a communicator or messenger. Where the people doing the targets are remote from the evaluator, one must have someone there to do the personal contact. And be sure THAT person isn’t just sitting at a desk but is actually doing personal contact on targets. Thus all evaluations, on the issue itself or by organizational pattern, should have someone who can personally contact people getting the targets done fully and completely.

Question 90

What are the six duties of a person responsible for passing evaluations?

Answer 90

There are six duties of a person who is responsible for passing evaluations:

1. to see that the evaluation is correct and that it can accomplish or approach the ideal scene;
2. that those doing evaluations, by the process of the criticism itself, become trained and better evaluators;
3. that persons doing evaluations become correctly and well trained by the process of training, cramming and, as needed, ethics;
4. to see that evaluations do occur on existing situations;
5. to see that unevaluated situations do not exist and;
6. to make sure that the Data Series is used to its full potential.

Question 91

What is a data trail and how is it used ?

Answer 91

data trail: n. a brief summary in an evaluation of the “strings pulled” on the outpoint or pluspoint route to finally get the Why.

Let us say you see the machine division is failing.

Now, if you simply take masses of data about it and just start turning over 10 or 12 sheets at a time looking for outpoints only and keep a tally of what they are and to whom they belong, you will wind up with your situation area and probably your situation without reading any significances at all.

Now that you have your area and situation in it, you can start really reading all about it and get that existing scene’s data and its outpoints. And your Why leaps at you.

Question 92

How does one correct an eval submitted for OK?

Answer 92

An evaluation submitted for an okay is only reviewed to the first major outness (see HCO PL 3 July 74, Data Series 33, EVALUATION, CRITICISM OF) and is then returned for correction.

Only when no major correction is necessary does one then verify all data or go to an extensive review of the whole eval.

Question 93

What can happen if one can’t envision the ideal scene?

Answer 93

If one cannot envision the ideal scene, one is not likely to be able to see a situation or get one.

A SITUATION IS THE MOST MAJOR DEPARTURE FROM THE IDEAL SCENE.

Thus:

ONE MUST BE ABLE TO ENVISION AN IDEAL SCENE TO FIND A SITUATION.

Question 94

What will a Real Why do?

Answer 94

You can really understand a real Why if you realize this:

A REAL WHY OPENS THE DOOR TO HANDLING.

If you write down a Why, ask this question of it: “Does this open the door to handling?”

Question 95

Why when doing evaluations must one use pluspoints and outpoints by name?

Answer 95

In doing evaluations to find why things got better so they can be repeated, it is vital to use the actual pluspoints by name as above. They can then be counted and handled as in the case of outpoints.

Pluspoints are, after all, what make things go right

Question 96

What do you know if an eval only has a Who or a Where as it’s Why?

Answer 96

AN “EVAL” THAT ONLY HAS A WHO OR A WHERE AS ITS WHY IS INCOMPLETE.

Question 97

What is an Ideal Org?

Answer 97

The ideal org would be an activity where people came to achieve freedom and where they had confidence they would attain it.

Question 98

How does a situation relate to survival?

Answer 98

There are bad situations, good situations and no situations. A situation is something that applies to survival and if you evaluate the word “situation” against survival, you’ve got it. A good situation is a high level of survival; a bad situation is a threatened survival and a no situation is something that won’t affect survival.

Question 99

What is the definition of evaluation?

Answer 99

“to examine the evidence in order to determine the situation,” and that is the intelligence meaning, and then it could have a further: “so as to formulate policy or planning relating thereto.” In other words, “What is the enemy going to do?” So the general can say, “Therefore we should . . .”

Question 100

What is an essential part of evaluation?

Answer 100

Prediction from data is an essential part of evaluation. “This datum is an outpoint—it shouldn’t be, peculiar.” Now it will predict more data.

Question 101

What is a qualification for an evaluator?

Answer 101

What do we get here then as a qualification for an evaluator? You have to know all the outpoints in sight. You have to know what outpoints are. But that’s rather thinking backwards because you should know that something shouldn’t be. And as soon as you get a “shouldn’t be” you can do a prediction. And that leads you into an investigation—by viewing other data. In other words you find this terrific outpoint or these outpoints and you find out where they exist, it leads you into, very directly, the point that you should be investigating.