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Discussion
The advanced analysis assistance programs outlined here represent a substantial advance
in the automation of COD@ analysis, aimed at permitting the occupational analyst to focus
attention on making critical judgments, rather than spending hours and hours examining
various case data or task data summaries in an attempt to develop an overall perspective on
a specialty or occupational area. By using somewhat standardized displays which focus on
possible job types or task clusters (modules) and defining relationships within and between
given sets of jobs or modules, these programs permit an analyst to quickly decide what the
potentially meaningful clusters are, and to proceed with other aspects of the analysis.
There still remains some work to be done in terms of polishing the three still-experimental
programs. After they are refined and finalized through additional operational testing, they
will be released into the operational ASCII CODAP system, and will become available for
implementation in military occupational analysis programs. Suggestions for additional
analysis assistance programs which might be needed and useful are also welcome.
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