Week 5: Case Clinic I

Applying the classification scheme live for the first time, the case that finally gives the buddy system real teeth, and the corpus's first real fieldwork test of a week-3 measure.

The seminar room that reads larger inside than the floor plan allows.

22 March 2027

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Outline#

• the difference between this week and everything discussed so far: no prior write-up to check your log against, no departmental precedent to lean on — the log you produce this week is the record
• applying the four-category scheme live: why the seminar-room case currently reads as responsive rather than persistent, and what evidence would have to change for that call to move
• the case week 4 previewed: an occupant who can’t self-extract, and only a second observer, outside, opening the door, ends the observation. Corroboration and rescue turn out to be the same requirement, not two separate justifications for the same paperwork
• diagnose, then respond — two stages, logged separately: confirming the instrument reading against a corridor baseline before the case counts as live, then a distinct, separate rescue action. Named explicitly as the same two-stage shape week 3’s English witch bottles use (diagnose first, then a separate construction/response stage), not a coincidence — it’s the first case built to test that structure rather than only cite it
• the nazar amulet, run honestly: the corpus’s first real fieldwork test of a week-3 measure. Not run because anyone’s confident it does anything against a spatial anomaly — run because a self-signalling check that costs nothing to log alongside an instrument reading is worth logging either way, and the result goes in the file whichever way it comes out
• sourcing discipline turned inward: the same rule this course holds a published case to — behaviour, not atmosphere; corroborated, not asserted — applies just as strictly to a case this course is generating itself

After this lecture#

Keep this week’s log — the classification call, the diagnose/respond entries, and the nazar reading. It’s raw material for the Field Case File, due next week alongside the stairwell case.