Statistics of Quality and the Quality of Such Statistics

A Micro-Paper/ Sketch of a Monograph on the General Nature of Quality

Introduction

If  quality cannot be directly quantified how is quality to be determined given the intuition that the quality of quality can, to some extent, be judged along with the quality of that judgment?! (And if we can critically evaluate a judgment, judge a judgment, is it not possible that judgments of different type could be accommodated on this level?).

1.	Outline of the six-fold nature of judgment as previously outlined, namely, the essential, aesthetical, ethical, pragmatical, hermeneutical and the factual.
2.	Noting that quality is centered on the existential ego-pole and concerns itself primarily with aesthetical, ethical and pragmatical fields.
3.	Comments re those three fields and how they can reinforce or disestablish each other even though superficially they should not be confused.
4.	That only on a deep level of psychic satisfaction can there be an effective accommodation between any pairs, combinations and/or totality of the same. Otherwise such conflation can only be productive of various philosophical confusions. In other words the deeper transcendental machinery underlying these six fields of transcendental judgment is the same! But, that their subject matter, through different degrees of emphasis between these three poles of the object, ego and field or world would necessarily differ.
5.	An analysis of the intuition that statistics of quality can only be indicative of quality and therefore demand strong arguments for these types of linkage.
6.	A belief that statistics should not be gathered in an ad hoc fashion but with a defined set of objectives in mind! The gathering of such statistics and their critical evaluation helping us to refine and redefine the nature of our research (and ‘intuitions’) retrospectively.
7.	Thence is realized in the process a positive proactive stance that sees the gathering of statistics as a tool for transformation in the delivery of practices, etc! And that the primary role of statistics gathering should have this ambition?

1st Sketch, Noël Tointon, 30.7.00