Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

A little ‘backstory’ here before you read this Post from 2010. For reasons lost to antiquity,  there was a time in our first year, when we decided to create some High School characters who would go to an imaginary High School (Millard Fillmore High), there adventures and hijinks would provide us with fun new ways to illustrate the Doctrine. If you search the archives you will find reference to a certain Janie Sullivan and her bff Britney and their marginal pal (and part time troublemaker) Jimmy, and for reasons that I can’t remember, I had the ‘cast’ include foregin exchange students from Spain and Slovenia. Funny how the mind works, non?

You will all take out a Number 5 pencil and put it on the desk/tabletop/lap in front of you.

You will also (imagine) a Test Booklet,which is sealed. Do not Open it! We will tell you when to open it. Simply sit/recline/lean or otherwise maintain your posture while the Instructions are Read to you.

People keep asking us, “when are you people going to come up with a Test that will tell me which one of these three types I am”? (The implied statement that, “I am too mentally lazy/crippled/retarded/restrained/uninspired”, will have to go un-answered until another Post at another time.) Today we have a Test.

Since the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers) is culture neutral and universally applicable and therefore Readers taking this Test today may be from any part of the world, there will be Monitors available during the Test Period. If your ‘translator application’ produces an unintelligible answer or if a cultural reference leaves you muttering, “Kaj za vraga! Tisti, zahodnjaki ne more mogoče, da je self-absorbent!”   Then raise your hand/click on email/submit a Comment and one of our Monitors/DownSprings will come to you and answer your question. Your Monitors are: DownSpring#1, Ms. AKH and the Progenitor roger.  (If you simply need to go to the bathroom and don’t mind the risk of being exposed to public humiliation, you might ask Downspring glenn for assistance, but you have been forewarned).

Monitors? Please stand up/Comment Briefly/Digitally wave/or otherwise indicate that you are paying some attention to this thing.  And of course, for any extreme stress reactions, Mr. B will be in the back of the “room” with plenty of sawdust. ( Señor Miguel, ¿tomó mi sugerencia de que se saltan el desayuno de esta mañana? No, obviamente no estaba bromeando! )

Alright then, to the Test.

There will be three sections in the form of Polls. Take each of three and note your point total for each, it will come into play when it is time to score. (…Very funny, Jimmy, I am sure Ms. AKH will be quite amused...)

Pencils Down!

That was just to warm us up. Before we continue the Wakefield Doctrine Lesson of the Day, consider this:  Whether it is at school when we are young or in the workplace as we are older, even  in advanced age, we have to take Tests.  If there is a time when each of the three types are at ease taking a test, which are which. Lets rephrase that: Tests in school and tests in the workplace and tests in the retirement homes, who does best in which? A clark, a scott or a roger. (Now it would hardly be a Test if I give you the frickin answer right here, would it?) While you are thinking it over, lets take another Poll. Pick up your “pencils”…now!

How are we doing?  Monitors? Anyone seen Miguel? Alright  one more Poll then you can go to your homes and write us a nice Comment and maybe you will get your Test Results in time for them to do you any good!