Week 2: Behavioural Classification

How to test a case against persistent / recurring / responsive / dormant rather than just recite the labels, using a benign-looking object's dual profile as the worked example.

When an anomaly repeats, but never quite the same way.

1 March 2027

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Outline#

• the four categories restated as questions to ask of a case, not labels to memorise: does the behaviour hold steady (persistent), repeat on a pattern (recurring), trigger on an action (responsive), or sit inactive until then (dormant) — and why a case can answer yes to more than one
• worked application: an object with a genuinely affectionate, unchanging baseline that, rarely and only while unobserved, does something else entirely — classified persistent and dormant at once, two tracked channels rather than one forced fit. Full case held back for week 7; this week only trains the classification move, not the story behind it
• what carries forward: this vocabulary is what week 3’s traditions get read through, and what your week 5–6 case files are marked against

A note on this week’s content#

This week teaches the classification scheme on its own terms, without a new case attached to it. The move — testing behaviour against four questions rather than filing it under one label — is the whole lesson; the first case sturdy enough to carry the full test doesn’t appear until week 7, once you also have the sourcing method to assess it properly.