Reference: Data Series
Reference: Data Series 10—THE MISSING SCENE
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THE MISSING SCENE
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.
College education became rather discredited in Europe until students were required to work in areas of actual practice as part of their studies. Educated far from reality students had “no scene” Thus no data they had was related by them to an actual activity. There was even an era when the “practical man” or “practical engineer” was held in contempt. That was when the present culture started to go down.
A good blend would be theory and practical in balance. That gives one data and activity. But it could be improved by stressing also the ideal scene.
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BODIES OF DATA
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. A body of data can also be grouped as to time, like an historical period. Illogic occurs when one or more data is misplaced into the wrong body of data for it.
An example would be: “Cars were no longer in use. Bacterial warfare had taken its toll.” Cars and bacteria belong to two very different bodies of data. The brain strains to classify this disparate data together. It dreams up a new false datum to make sense out of it. In this example, it could be imagined that bacteriological warfare had wiped out all the people.
It remains that an outpoint can occur when a datum belonging to one zone of data, location or time, is inserted into another zone where it doesn’t. Primitive rejective responses to foreigners is a mental reaction to a body of people, in this case, being invaded by a person not of that tribe.
If the scene is wholly unknown, one doesn’t know what data belongs to it. Thus a sense of confusion results. There is also a reverse compulsion—to try to fit any datum found into some body of data. The mind operates toward logic, particularly in classes of things.
THE SENSIBLE HANDLING OF DATA OF COURSE INCLUDES SPOTTING A DATUM, TERMINAL, ITEM, ACTION, GROUPED IN WITH A BODY OF DATA WRONG FOR IT. AND IN SPOTTING THAT A DATUM DOES NOT HAVE TO BELONG ANYWHERE AT ALL.
When a person has some idea of the scene involved, he should be able to separate the data in it into similar groups. In general, one should be able to relate data or actions to their own classes. So there is an INCORRECTLY INCLUDED DATUM which is a companion to the OMITTED DATUM as an outpoint.
A traveler unable to distinguish one uniform from another “solves” it by classifying all uniforms as “porters.” Hands his bag to an arrogant police captain and that’s how he spent his vacation, in jail.
Lack of the scene brings about too tight an identification of one thing with another. This can also exclude a vital bit making a disassociation.
Some knowledge of the scene itself is vital to an accurate and logical assembly or review of data. The remedy of course is to get more data on what the scene itself really should consist of. When the scene is missing one has to study what the scene is supposed to consist of, just not more random data about it.
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