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Reference: Data Series 18—SUMMARY OF OUT-POINTS

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SUMMARY OF OUT-POINTS

These are the fundamental out-points required in Data Analysis and Situation Analysis. It is very important that these outpoints correspond to the ideal scene being evaluated, and not to one’s personal ideals. The ideal scene is very specific to the purpose of what is being evaluated. The personal ideals can be very general and subject to fixed ideas.

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OMITTED DATA

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 out-point. This is easily the most overlooked out-point as it isn’t there to directly attract attention. 

In crime it is as bad to omit as it is to commit. Yet no one seems to notice the omissions as actual crimes. In any analysis which fails to discover a WHY one can safely conclude the why is an omission and look for things that should be there and aren’t. 

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ALTERED SEQUENCE

Sequence means linear (in a line) travel either through space or time or both. Any things, events, object, sizes, in a wrong sequence is an out-point. The number series 3, 7, 1, 2, 4, 6, 5 is an altered sequence, or an incorrect sequence. A cart-before-the-horse out of sequence is an out-point. 

The basic outness is no sequence at all. This leads into FIXED IDEAS. It also shows up in what is called disassociation, an insanity. Things connected to or similar to each other are not seen as consecutive. Such people also jump about subjectwise without relation to an obvious sequence. Disassociation is the extreme case where things that are related are not seen to be and things that have no relation are conceived to have. 

One has to think in sequences to have correct sequences. Persons who do not think in sequence do not see altered sequences in their own actions or areas. 

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DROPPED TIME

Time that should be noted and isn’t would be an out-point of “dropped time”. It is a special case of an omitted datum. Dropped time has a peculiarly ferocious effect that adds up to utter lunacy. A news bulletin from 1814 and one from 1922 read consecutively without time assigned produces otherwise undetectable madness. 

In madmen the present is the dropped time, leaving them in the haunted past. Just telling a group of madmen to “come up to present time” will produce a few miraculous “cures”. Time aberrations are so strong that dropped time well qualifies as an out-point. 

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FALSEHOOD

When you hear two facts that are contrary, one is a falsehood or both are. Propaganda and other activities specialize in falsehoods and provoke great disturbance. Willful or unintentional a falsehood is an out-point. It may be a mistake or a calculated or defensive falsehood and it is still an out-point. 

Anything that seeks to be what it isn’t is a falsehood and an out-point. Fiction that does not pretend to be anything else is of course not a falsehood. 

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ALTERED IMPORTANCE

An importance shifted from its actual relative importance, up or down, is an out-point. A number of things of different importances can be assigned a monotone of importance. That will also be an out-point. All importances are relative to their actuality.

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WRONG TARGET

Mistaken objective is an out-point. An example would be “removing the slums” to make way for modem shops, which kills the tourist industry.  

Wrong target is commonly mistaken identity. It is also mistaken purposes or goals. Injustice is usually a wrong target out-point. Arrest the drug consumer, award the drug company would be an example. 

A large sum of aberration is based on wrong targets, wrong sources, wrong causes. Incorrectly tell a patient he has ulcers when he hasn’t and he’s hung with an out-point which impedes recovery. 

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Reference: Data Series

Reference: Data Series 16—INVESTIGATORY PROCEDURE

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INVESTIGATORY PROCEDURE

Correction of things which are not wrong and neglecting things which are not right puts the tombstone on any organization or civilization. This boils down to CORRECT INVESTIGATION. It is not a slight skill. It is THE basic skill behind any intelligent action. 

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SUPPRESSIVE JUSTICE

When justice goes astray 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. 

All suppressive use of the forces of justice can be traced back to one or the other of these. It is one thing to be able to observe. It is quite another to utilize observations so that one can get to the basis of things. 

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SEQUENCES 

Investigations become necessary in the face of out-points or plus-points. Whatever the motive for investigation the action itself is conducted by sequences. If one is incapable mentally of tracing a series of events or actions, one cannot investigate.

Altered sequence is a primary block to investigation. Any time an investigation gets back to front, it will not succeed. For example, “We will assume who did it and then find evidence to prove it.” Or, “A crime should be provoked to find who commits them.” 

Thus, if an investigator himself has any trouble with seeing or visualizing sequences of actions he will inevitably come up with the wrong answer. Stuck attention or attention that cannot confront alike will have trouble in visualizing sequences. 

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INVESTIGATIONS

Any investigation follows a sequence of actions. It is not monopolized by law and order. All betterment of life depends on finding out plus-points and why and reenforcing them, locating out-points, and why and eradicating them. 

This is the successful survival pattern of living. A primitive who is going to survive does just that and a scientist who is worth anything does just that. 

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DISCOVERY 

All discoveries are the end product of a sequence of investigatory actions that begin with either a plus-point or an out-point. 

Thus all knowledge proceeds from plus-points or out-points observed. And all knowledge depends on an ability to investigate. And all investigation is done in correct sequence. And all successes depend upon the ability to do these things. 

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Reference: Data Series

Reference: Data Series 14—WORKING AND MANAGING

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WORKING AND MANAGING

By actual experience, the most dangerous worker-manager thing to do is to work or manage from something else than statistics. Man’s largest and most unjust fault consists wholly of acting on opinion. When one says “opinion” one is dealing with that morass of false reports and prejudices which make up the chaos of current social orders. 

Thus this whole field of “opinion” and “reports” is a quicksand endangering both personal repute and management skill. 

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. 

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PREDICTION

The whole reason one does a Data Analysis and a Situation Analysis is to predict. 

The biggest out-point would be a missing Ideal Scene, the next biggest would be a correct statistic for it. If these are missing then prediction can become a matter of telling fortunes with bamboo sticks. 

One predicts in order to continue the viability of an organism, an individual, a group, an organization, a state or nation or planet, or to estimate the future of anything. 

The closer one approaches a disaster the more out-points will turn up. Thus the more out-points that turn up the closer one is approaching a disaster. By being able to predict, the organism or individual or group can correct the out-points before disaster occurs.

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