checklists taken from
policy letters on or related to
management by
statistics and interpretation of
statistics. They are
inspection checklists. The
items are all taken directly from the
PLs and the only
change in the wording of any of them consists of making each one a
negative. Thus if in using a
checklist the
inspector or
observer asks himself, "Does this
item on this
checklist exist here?", and finds that it does exist, then the
PL the
item belongs to is to that degree, violated, and he knows that he has his hands on an
error, an out-
point, or a possible why. As the
subject is
broad and has a
lot of
materials on it, the checklists have been divided into 4 parts. Part A is to do with the
indicators and consequences of not
having and using
stats. Part B
concerns the
admin and preparation of graphs for
inspection and
use. Part C has to do with
handling statistics, reading
statistics, analyzing
statistics. Part D
concerns inspection of areas with down
stats, actions to take on
stats, and what to do about the conclusions arrived at in reading or analyzing the
stats.
(BPL 29 Sept 72R I)