Part Two.
The Assessment Factory
“To be an empiricist, to leave a sea of possibilities toss and turn around facts
and questions; as he will say one day: to see alternatives everywhere; as he
says now: to not accept the customary as if it were self-evident; to make rigid
conventions pliant; to try to imagine mindsets different from our own; to take a
bird's-eye view of questions; to have a free and open mind; to look at things
through one's own perspective and feel the figures of the sphinxes spring up
from all around. This is what is, for him, the truly philosophical attitude.”
Jean Wahl
The list of the various stages culminating in the formulation of
recommendations prompts a view of human factors assessments as a
production process. And ...