Evaluations may be defined as E=mc² i.e. Evaluations= Mental
manifestations in Contexts.
A matter of evaluating Demonetization, vital mistake we must desist from
in evaluating anything is extrapolating with anything either our ideological
bias or inferred benefits.
Economic
activities as aspects of social engineering and governance need not necessarily
be and explicitly always be about short term gains.
On
evaluation even great research works like the bulky ‘Evaluation:
A Systematic Approach‘ by Peter H. Rossi, Mark W. Lipsey, and Howard E.
Freeman first published get such reviews like ‘There is never any
clear instruction about how one should begin an evaluation or how one should
proceed’.
The
most comprehensive book on evaluations ‘ Making Evaluation Matter-a
practical guide for evaluators’ by Cecile Kusters with Simone van Vugt, Seerp
Wigboldus, Bob Williams and Jim Woodhill also emphasizes certain
factors repeatedly and predominantly they are context/situation, situational
responsiveness, stake holders, inherent qualities of the project
/program/person being evaluated ,multiple roles, consequence awareness etc
Even
this material also throws lot of light on evaluation ‘American Journal of
Evaluation-2011-Smith-565-99.pdf
Here I am tempted to quote, “Friend
to Groucho Marx: “Life is hard…” Grouch Marx to Friend: “Compared
to what?”
It
is preferable to immerse any topic or subject matter, primarily and basically with its intrinsic
elements/components/aspects/attributes intact, into a cauldron which has a mixture of all these-
knowledge based analysis, limited perception based on frames of reference and
scales of observation, skepticism , criticism, intellectual scrutiny,
compassionate emotionalism, humane socialism, rational thinking, contextual
relevance [ which includes too many components] , traditions, practical
viability, psychological comfort, aesthetic sensitivity, scientific scrutiny
etc and churn the cauldron without clinging on to any particular
restrictive social, cultural or political or religious identity.
This
process inevitably will bring out lot of outputs. We can exercise our freedom
and sometimes select and choose some of the outputs. Sometimes the outputs will
draw us. Sometimes away from all or any of our intended searches and seeking,
outside the circle of these known paradigms, almost tangentially serendipity will
drag us to an oasis of serene clarity.
At all costs the intrinsic attributes must be the
predominant factor so that whatever is thrown into the
cauldron and however it is churned, the ultimate output must include those
attributes so that evaluation is not distorted or desperately doctored to
fit into any predefined and expected outcome.
So,
what pans out ultimately depends on various factors and aspects some of which
are explainable within the ken of logical and rational thinking but some are
beyond these.
We
can also observe uneasily how the human intellect polished by a rare faculty
[
compared to other species] of conscious awareness, capacity to think,
store the knowledge, retrieve it for reference and so on is mostly, unwilling to take the risk of
accepting the uncertain; the intellectually undecipherable and the inexplicable
outcomes, even if such acceptance is branded, extolled and promoted as virtues
of humility or modesty.
“Get out of your own way… stop the paralysis by analysis…
decide what you want, create a simple plan, and get moving!” - Steve Maraboli.
I beg you… to have patience with everything unresolved in
your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked
rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the
answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to
live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now.
Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even
noticing it, live your way into the answer. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke.
“Across planes of consciousness, we have to live with the
paradox that opposite things can be simultaneously true.” ― Ram Dass.
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