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Outline Introduction Basic strategy Selection of topics Specification of purpose Choice of intermediate transfers Development of criteria The morphology of data Primary expression Scales of categories Unranked data Existential Nominal Ranked data Ordinal Metric The conversion of data Homologous conversion Preservation Translation Conjunction Heterologous conversion Transformation Designation Incorporation Expansion Cluster Transduction Appraisal Inference The construction of criteria Principles of justification Peremptory assignment Internal comparison Consensual validation Extrinsic documentation Operational procedures Eligibility Aggregation Provision for imperfect data Functions of criteria Identification criteria Evaluation criteria Transition criteria Management criteria Summary Introduction Like every major new medium of technology, the digital computer has led to new occupations and new intellectual disciplines. Vocationally, it has produced not only the "constituent" occupations related to design, manufacture, sales, and servicing of the computer itself, but also the "operational" positions filled by key-punchers, data coders, programmers, and systems analysts. Intellectually, the availability of computers has stimulated the

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