Q AND A

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1. Question and Answer. When the term Q and A is used it means one did not get an answer to his question. It also means not getting compliance with an order but accepting something else. The executive gives an order, the junior says or does something else, the executive does not simply get the original order done, and the result is chaos. Example: executive: do target 21 now. Junior: I don't have any issue files. Executive: What happened to them? Junior: Mimeo goofed. Executive: I'll go see Mimeo. . . . Q and A is simply postulate aberration. Aberration is non-straight line by definition. People who can't get things done are simply Qing and Aing with people and life. (HCOB 5 Dec 73)

2. means "Question and Answer." When the term Q and A is used it means one did not get an answer to his question. It also means not getting compliance with an order but accepting something else. Example: Auditor, "Do birds fly?" Pc, "I don't like birds." Auditor, "What don't you like about birds?" Flunk. It's a Q and A. The right reply would be an answer to the question asked and the right action would be to get the original question answered. (HCOB 5 Dec 73)

3. the origin of the term comes from "changing when the pc changes." A later definition was "Questioning the pc's Answer." The basic answer to a question is, obviously, a question if one follows the duplication of the comm formula completely. Q and A is a failure to complete a cycle of action on a preclear. An auditor who starts a process, just gets it going, gets a new idea because of pc cognition, takes up the cognition and abandons the original process is Q and Aing. (HCOB 7 Apr 64)