Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers), the best kept secret in the blogosphere. But once you have discovered our little blog, you will find much to amuse and confound, intrigue and amaze and answer the key questions to all relationships, the reason for entire branches of …-ologies” and …osophies” everyone’s favorite question: “Now why would they want to go and act like that“?

Well, chillun, you have surely come to the right place. But first there is the matter of “style”. That we have the answer for you is not a matter for debate, just how you want to hear this information presented. You can choose from 3 styles!
Dry, logical detailed and focused to an encyclopedic level of information saturation, with just a hint of the pedantic or….fast, quick fun and exciting, (details? we don need no steekindetails…listen up, yo).  (Still trying to arrange the third, the cardigan sweater, brown hair, eye-twinkling, gentle laugh with a warm sense of knowing how you feel and not being pushy at all. Fred MacMurray is dead, so he is un-available on short notice. Don’t worry, we’ll think of something.)

So what we will accomplish will be a Post and Wakefield Doctrine Lesson of the Day.

…which would normally mean… ( …Dios mío, la señorita Sullivan lo que es eso y lo que pasó con el director?… ) in a case such as… ( what is going on with those students?) we can see the effects  (…Aiiee… nos gustaría volver a la Comunidad de Madrid ahora, por favor… ) OK!  whats going on there in the back? What? No, I do not see a test…. {wtf!}  alright, everyone stay calm…where is the janitor?  I am sure there is a good explanation for this…Please!  Everyone remain in your seats and stay calm, we will have everything back to normal in just a second…{where the hell is the remote control for the videos?…goddamnit, it was right here when I started….}
Jimmy! Would you go and find the lights? and see if you can’t find that janitor friend of yours while you are at it!  What? yes I do have a set of keys to the maintenance area, no, don’t have to kick it in…use these keys…just find that janitor and get me my remote control…

So, while we make some adjustments to the audio-video element of our presentation, lets use this opportunity to have a Wakefield Doctrine Lesson of the Day!

Can anyone tell us who is best in an emergency? A clark, a scott or a roger?  Miss Sullivan?  lol why yes, we are assuming that we have found the roger and the scott has not lit his cigarette lighter to locate the source of the smell of gas.

The correct answer is: depends on how you are measuring outcome.  Very good!!
If your standard of success is crowd control and an orderly short-term response, and you have a high tolerance for collateral damage,  then a scott is your best person to have in an emergency
If your standard of success is developing a procedure for avoiding having the emergency happen again,  and are prepared to identify and prosecute and punish those who must be responsible for this terrible, terrible event then your rogers are best
If you standard of success is surviving the emergency calmly and without undo casualties, and you are prepared to take a loss on all that was invested in the situation that led up to this disaster, then you need a clark.

Now according to the Wakefield Doctrine, can anyone tell me why these are the likely outcomes?  Britney? no, I don’t mind if our exchange students construct a little shrine to the Virgin Mary.  Yes, absolutely correct.

clarks are the creative ones therefore they will be able to come up with a novel solution/adaptation to the problem and (since) they are the ones without any apparent emotions, there is a very low probability of them succumbing to panic;
scotts are the leaders, they will immediately take charge and most people (in an emergency) will follow them because that is what fearful people do, scotts are all about action, however they will proceed, with whatever course of action occurs to them without regard to outcome…the saying is, ‘a scott is often wrong, but never uncertain’
rogers will proceed to the exits that are clearly marked in an orderly fashion, they will mill about excessively until a scott arrives on the scene, in contrast to a scott, the roger will remember the emergency and will bring great effort to investigating why it happened and who was responsible and what rules and regulations are necessary to avoid it ever, ever happening again.

(…Still no sound? no video?…)