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The Target Specific for the
SRV Demonstration Experiment #4
(Conducted 22-28 October 1999)

NOTE:
In general, this is an excellent choice of a target for this
public demonstration experiment. However, the target specific
for this experiment has a significant (and educationally useful)
flaw. This allows us the opportunity to point out an interesting
element of the target writing process involving the difference
between target qualifiers and target aspects. The second and
third numbered aspects are not aspects at all, but rather target
qualifiers. This mistake is due to our own part, and not a result
of a anything done by the outside tasker for this experiment.
(We gave the tasker incorrect instructions.) We explain this
problem for educational purposes with regard to the interested
audience. In general, a target qualifier is something at the
target site as it is defined by the essential cue. For example,
if a target is your backyard, then a qualifier could be the hole
in your backyard, or the grass on the lawn in your backyard.
On the other hand, a target aspect involves a necessary and significant
shift in time or space around the target site. There is no guarantee
that any one viewer will notice any specific target item in a
session (which is why target qualifiers often do not work well).
But shifting the viewer around in perspective increases the chances
of the viewer noticing different and significant components of
a target. In the target specific below, the second and third
numbered aspects are simply two elements that exist at the target
as defined by the essential cue. Since the viewer is already
at the target via the first numbered aspect (which repeats the
essential cue always), then the second and third numbered aspects
in this instance do not move the viewer to a new perspective
in space or time.
Essential Cue:
The Battle of Gettysburg (July 1863)
Numbered Aspects:
1. The Battle of Gettysburg / event (July 1863)
2. Pickett's charge / event (July 3, 1863)
3. General J.E.B Stuart ordering the 1st Virginia to advance
against the Union Calvary / event (July 3, 1863)
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