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From: Jasper
Date: Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Time: 01:47:15 PM
Paddy, …Brilliant! This is an extremely important document on several levels. Therefore, I’m going to ask you to do something with it that I don’t normally ask and I’m going to do something that I don’t normally do. ……….As you know, a bug has crept into the Microsoft Front Page program I used to set up the site almost ten years ago that causes the paragraphs to run together when we post our message on the board. We can’t bet rid of it. Neither can our host Concentric. Microsoft can’t (or won’t) get rid of it, either. That’s why some of us put in a log series of dots to indicate paragraph breaks. ………Please repost your message with the dots where you want your paragraph breaks to go. I will then go into my Front Page program where I can separate the paragraphs so that this important analytical tool you developed can be more easily read and copied to the Knowledge Base board. Although the Knowledge Base board is a mess because of another intractable bug that has crept into all of the archives, it is still a single reference source that everyone can get to quickly and directly at any time. ……….Iago is first and foremost a working group. The analytical framework of you CWLQ has an objective structure, which makes it possible to create an index of variables for a graphic matrix. The variables you supplied are sufficiently detailed to get such a matrix started with more details that can be added, deleted or compressed as we learn more about them. This sounds more complicated than it is. As I see it, the implicit structure of your Compliance With the Law index is simple. This index would be made up of the explicit category indicators (the variables) you named and produce a valid Quotation number in every category. Now you got an analytical matrix that defines objective groups and is simultaneously as individual as fingerprints. …………All you have to do is list the CWL indicators in a vertical column on the left of a page. You put a number of occurrences on the right of each item in that column over 20, 10, 5 and 1-year time increments. When you add them up horizontally (for example, Speeding tickets…20 years:100, 10 years:50, 5 years: 20, 1 year: 5) you get a Quotation number in the last column. You can track which way things are going in each category, whether they are escalating, declining, fluctuating or constant, and see how these patterns correlate with each criminal group. The number you get when you add the numbers vertically on the right-hand column gives you the overall CWLPQ. A tool like this can be as potent as Donald Freed’s “clocks.” The problem, as you said, is in getting the real statistics on enough real people to do the studies. Unfortunately, my brother died in 2001. ………….If you get what you need to take your work to the next level you can expect surprises. I got them when I gathered enough data to do the Bronco turn studies and all of the Rockingham animations. I’m getting them again as I am struggling to structure and articulate in the Picture Gallery the process by which I OBJECTIVELY got into Fuhrman head in the Fuhrman at the Movies chapter of Iago and The Smoking Gun books. You can go farther with your CWLQ than you might think. But it’s a LOT of work. –Jasper