DATA SERIES

A series of policy letters on how to think straight about information: how to tell sound data from unsound, how to spot the illogical, and how to trace a good or bad situation back to what is actually causing it. It is described simply as the tool for discovering causes.

From the AOGP Abridged Scientology Dictionary — based on original LRH source materials, updated through 1982.

Usage

Someone whose department keeps having the same trouble every month can use the Data Series to find the actual cause instead of treating each incident as new. The method is to compare what is happening against what should be happening and look at exactly where the two part company.

Why It Matters

Most bad decisions come from acting on wrong or incomplete information rather than from bad intentions. The Data Series is the drill for not doing that.

Related Concepts

  • EVALUATIONAny attempt by someone to impose his arbitrary stable datum (whether correct or incorrect data) upon another.
  • POLICYThe rules and administrative formulas and procedures by which individuals in an organization agree on action and conduct their organizational activities.
  • GENERALITYA general or non-specific statement which is applicable to all and used in Scientology to mean a statement made in an effort either to hide cause or to overwhelm another person with an all-inclusive concept of —…
  • INTELLIGENCEThe ability to perceive, pose and resolve problems.

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