Not only economic
growth story for that matter every story can be defined
narrowly through 10 Ps and they are influenced or impacted by three Ps.
narrowly through 10 Ps and they are influenced or impacted by three Ps.
The ten Ps are:-
1. Plot,
2. Personalities
[characters],
3. Place
[ context, situation, settings etc],
4. Philosophy
[ the main theme or idea or concept that story tries to relate to /reveal to
us] ,
5. Phrases
[ the words, expressions and language used to communicate these],
6. Pertinent
theme/topic [ projection of ideas/thoughts etc through a theme],
7. Projection
of symbol [symbolically project something to ensure that the very symbol rings
a bell in the mind about everything discussed above – for example Krishna on
Chariot],
8. Predominant
genre [classification according to domain of
activity either based on human feelings/emotions or
social/environmental/religious/ cultural concerns traditionally sometimes classified
as comedy, romance, fiction, science, motivational etc],
9. Providing
imagination [ blank reality or blunt facts are boring after sometime so spice
it up with imagination which manifests either artistically or as master pieces
of confirmation bias or tools to perpetuate certain prejudices],
10.
Positioning of power as perceived [ as victor/winner/achiever etc in terms of
personality or victory of a way of life/philosophy/idea etc]
Perception,
Proper evaluation and
Projection of pertinent Data and if necessary we can introduce
the fourth P i.e
Pinpointing the target
Pinpointing the target
We shall see how these must
preferably operate in any domain more so in analyzing economic growth story.
Perception
Our perception by itself is feeble
because of certain inherent but inevitable aspects of our mental abilities and approaches.
“It is not often our perception but the
scale of observation and frames of reference which create the phenomenon. The
scale of observation depends on man; it is he who creates it. In nature,
different scales of observation do not exist. There is only one immense,
harmonious phenomenon on a scale which, in general, escapes man. The structure
of man's brain necessitates dividing into arbitrary compartments and cutting up
into isolated pieces. With the aid of several instruments science creates more
phantasmagoria: "on our scale of human observation, as pointed out before,
the edge of a razor-blade is a continuous line. On the microscopic scale, it is
a broken but solid line. On the chemic scale we have atoms of iron and carbon.
On the sub-atomic scale we have electrons in perpetual motion which travel at
the rate of several thousand miles per second. All these phenomena are in
reality the manifestations of the same basic phenomenon, the motions of the
electrons. The only difference which exists between them is the scale of
observation" [Human Destiny, Lecomte du Nuoy- a marvelous book that
everyone must read – if I remember correctly this comes in 34th page.”
Besides we have the option of
further spoiling our comprehension of anything by irrelevant methods of
evaluations coupled with our presumptions and prejudices
Proper Evaluation
Milton Friedman said, “One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs
by their [ presumed-italics
mine] intentions rather than their results”.
A very important element or aspect of any evaluation
especially in the realm of art is quality. Even in social/political and
economic development oriented activities Jane Davidson explains, “how
important it is to combine a mix of qualitative and quantitative data with
"relevant values" (such as needs) to draw explicitly evaluative
conclusions” in his book ‘Evaluation
Methodology Basics: The Nuts and Bolts of Sound Evaluation’.
That’s
why even great research works on evaluation 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’.
In
the realm of political decisions and business organizational management
methodology etc these types of game play matter, but not in evaluating art, as
Messick, S. (1994). Writes in The Interplay of Evidence and
Consequences in the Validation of Performance Assessments. Educational
Researcher, 23(2), 13–23, “Validity, reliability, comparability, and
fairness are not just measurement issues, but social values that have meaning
and force outside of measurement wherever evaluative judgments and decisions
are made”.
Projection of pertinent Data- its analysis, usage and interpretation
Data in various forms and formats though
is available aplenty we can spoil it through how we interpret it or selectively
twist and apply it out of context.
Data
is a very vital and extremely useful tool for many purposes; I repeat many
purposes because it gets its strength from its contributory utility. These
trends of worshiping data are all the result of conclusions arrived at due to
the ecstasy of revelations of research into reverse engineering.
Tweaking
anything and everything to create something new or come out with some modified
version of some existing thing is both interesting and easiest way to unleash
the human creative instinct and also draw certain conclusions, but all these
have a saturation point.
Even
in natural evolution certain designs are adopted others discarded based on the
adaptive utility of a particular organ at a particular place and period.
While
a large volume of data can throw up lot of ideas it cannot interpret or suggest
proper utilization of those ideas.
While
a large volume of data can throw up lot of thoughts it cannot do the thinking
beyond a certain extent and besides a specified path of predefined command.
While a large volume of data can throw up lot of
knowledge/information inputs it cannot initiate or ensure to neither enhance
understanding nor can even restrict frames of reference for understanding.
While
a large volume of data can throw up lot of insights into the working patterns
based on permutations it cannot provide the wisdom to choose that comes with
churning that life undergoes chronologically in the form of experience.
while judging and exploring the
facts we must desist getting distracted from the following major traps:-
1] Mutilating the facts,
2] Analyzing them with preconceived notions or prejudices,
3] Generalizing the particular and particularizing the general,
4] Approaching facts with unloving criticism or uncritical love,
5] Evaluating facts with our pet isms or philosophies,
6] Resorting to statistical justifications,
7] Unleashing unworkable utopia,
8] Mask them with logical fallacies,
9] Bury them in pleasant jargons, and
10] Give historical justifications.
Mark
Twain has said, “First get your facts; then you can distort them at your leisure”.[ here
they do it fit their preconceptions] and armed with these selective, filtered
and twisted facts they do what Maya Angelou perceived and stated, “There's a
world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth”.
“Everything changes as you move through three stages of
awareness:
first, that beliefs are the result of conditions;
second, that beliefs are the cause of conditions;
and third, that beliefs are themselves conditions.”
― Eric Micha'el Leventhal
first, that beliefs are the result of conditions;
second, that beliefs are the cause of conditions;
and third, that beliefs are themselves conditions.”
― Eric Micha'el Leventhal
I always maintain evaluation must be contextually relevant,
based on intrinsic merit or inherent attributes of whatever or whomsoever that
you are evaluating.
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