From:             BillJanie@aol.com
Date sent:        Sun, 18 Feb 1996 09:49:40 -0500
To:               pcp@mailbase.ac.uk
Subject:          Elaboration and the BandWagon
Send reply to:    pcp@mailbase.ac.uk

The following coordinate grid is perfectly logical- as far as it goes-
but it is not integratively complex. In the coordinate grid procedure
the person ranks column figures to row figures according to their
general similarity. In the bandwagon grid the central figure preempts
elaboration. It is judged most like all the others. The other figures
fall progressively towards the periphery as mere subsets of the leader.
Even the leader loses the complexity that is the birth right of human
beings. He is reduced to semi-divinity and archetypal simplicity. This
is a hell of a way to (have to) advance a public or a private science.

      The BandWagon  Grid

       A  B  C D E  F  G H
A     1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8
B     2  1  3  4  5  6  7  8
C     2  3  1  4  5  6  7  8
D     2  3  4  1  5  6  7  8
E     2  3  4  5  1  6  7  8
F     2  3  4  5  6  1  7  8
G    2  3   4  5  6  7  1  8
H    2  3   4  5  6  7  8  1

William Chambers