SATs
Who?What?How?When?Where?Why?SoWhat/
What is starbursting?
Generates multiple alternatives for explaining an issue or event
What is multiple hypothesis generation?
Claiming key items could have been easily identified before the outcome
What is hindsight bias?
BLUF
What is bottom line up front?
Information gathered from persons
What is HUMINT
Process to generate new ideas or concepts
What is brainstorming?
Organizes data or events when it is important to understand the timing
What are Chronologies and Timelines?
Accepting a given value as a starting point for generating assessment
What is anchoring effect?
WIIFM
What is What's In It For Me?
Radar
What is ELINT?
Technique for listing and assessing all the forces for and against a change.
What is force field analysis?
Explicitly list and challenge the key working assumptions
What is key assumptions check?
Focusing on one vivid scenario while ignoring others
What is vividness bias?
Who is Sherman Kent
TRASHINT
Framework for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats
What is SWOT analysis?
Analysis that weights alternatives
What is Analysis of Competing Hypotheses?
Choosing the option that the majority of group agrees with
What is groupthink?
Baltimore Assistant Attorney - unsolved murder
Who is Jonathan Luna?
Imagery and geospatial information
What is GEOINT?
Explores the logic of arguments and illustrates sets of relationships in arguments
What is Venn Analysis?
What is deception?
Tendency to favor information that confirms or strengthens beliefs
What is confirmation bias?
ICD
What is Intelligence Community Directive?
MASINT
What is measurements and signatures intelligence