Simon Sez: zzzzzzz.

I was browsing over at IntelFusion, a blog that covers the analytical-end of the intel community, I came across this horrible image -- the Petersen Analytic Confidence Tool -- or, the Simon Sez of intel analysis.  Supposedly this simple "tool" is supposed to improve your analytical thinking by having you -- the analyst -- think through the....zzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

The image drew out from the musty archives of memory the recollection of a formal class on intel analysis that I would have chosen never to recall, ever again.