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an enforced wrong datum. (EOS, p. 52)
- jammed thinking because of a misunderstood or misapplied datum.* (HCOB 12 Nov 64)
*[This term stems from an analogy made by LRH comparing the reactive mind to a computer or adding machine in which the number seven (or five) had been shorted out so that it was always added in in every computation. Of course it could not compute correctly or get correct answers from data as long as this condition existed. (EOS, p. 51)]