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19. HCOB    4 Dec. 1978       How to Read Through an F/N





      HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE

Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex



     HCO BULLETIN OF 4 DECEMBER 1978



C/Ses

Class III Auditors

  and above

Supervisors

Cramming Officers





      HOW TO READ THROUGH AN F/N



  Ref:

  HCOB 15 Oct. 73RB   C/S Series 87RB

                      NULLING AND F/Ning PREPARED LISTS





WHEN TAKING A LIST TO F/Ning ASSESSMENT, AN AUDITOR MUST KNOW HOW 

TO READ THROUGH AN F/N.



This is a skill that, up to this point, has been used routinely 

only by highly trained auditors or a few very sharp Class IIIs or 

IVs or above. But with the difficulty auditors have had in F/Ning 

prepared lists, it becomes obvious that, from Class III on up, 

all auditors should be trained to read the meter through an F/N.



It is the answer to almost any difficulty an auditor has had in 

taking a list to F/Ning assessment.



An F/N speeds up or slows down or does different things while 

still remaining an F/N and one can read through it.



It is done like this: The swinging weight of the needle (F/Ning 

from an earlier item) has momentum and it will tend to obscure 

the read on another item. It will almost obscure it, but not 

quite. You'll see the F/N "check" or slow up briefly and then 

continue and this means you have a hot item. Any item that would 

cause an F/N to 11 check" will be hot. The auditor who can read 

through an F/N will spot this and handle the item then and there. 

Then he continues on down the list, missing nothing, handling 

what is there to be handled and, with this skilled metering, 

takes it to a genuinely F/Ning list on assessment. And it doesn't 

take days or even several sessions, necessarily, to do it.



If an auditor can't read through an F/N, he'll miss this. He's 

going down the list, the F/N "checks" or slows and he doesn't see 

it so he goes right on by it. Then, within the next couple of 

items, the F/N kills. He's going to have a hard time F/Ning that 

list because he's now got a suppressed read.



Example:

Auditor in assessing starts with an F/N which continues as he 

goes on down the list calling the items. On, say, item five the 

F/N "checks" or slows briefly. Auditor can't read through an F/N 

so he misses this and goes on by. On about the sixth or seventh 

item the F/N packs up, and the auditor is in a quandary because 

the F/N has turned off but he didn't get a read on items six or 

seven either. Or he may misduplicate the killed F/N as a read on 

items six or seven and attempt to take up one or the other of 

them. Either way he's in for trouble because he's missed the 

actual item and he may even try to handle a wrong item. He's 

going to find it difficult to take that list to an F/Ning 

assessment.



The correct action when an F/N packs up this way is to go back up 

the list and reassess the last several items to find the missed 

read. But one should be able to read through an F/N.



Probably the main reason for pc upset or protest against 

"overrepair" and being handled again and again with repair lists 

lies in this factor alone -- the auditor can't read through an 

F/N. Thus, he misses the charged items and takes up items that 

are uncharged. And the repair goes on interminably, as the 

charged lines are not found and handled.



This is also probably the reason that auditors have been known to 

back off from having to F/N a list. They "know" from experience 

that it is a laborious business.



The truth is it's not necessary for an auditor to labor over 

taking a list to F/Ning assessment. It simply requires good TRs 

and skilled metering, including the ability to read through F/Ns.



An auditor can be trained to see a read through an F/N. The drill 

would be to sit him down in front of a meter with an F/Ning 

student on the cans and assess the prepared lists in The Book of 

E-Meter Drills, spotting each time he gets a "check" or a "slow" 

or any change in an otherwise continuing F/N. He'll find that he 

can read through an F/N and become very adept at this, and from 

then on he won't miss.



You'll have an auditor who is confident of his ability to F/N a 

list accurately and thoroughly in one-half the time (and trauma) 

it would take otherwise.



And far fewer "overrepaired" pcs. ("Overrepaired" pcs are usually 

pcs with actual reads missed and false reads taken up. So 

"overrepair" is really "misrepaired" or "not repaired.")



This is metering at its best and most accurate. We now expect the 

best and most accurate metering from the auditor who is in the 

business of F/Ning prepared lists.





L. RON HUBBARD

Founder



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