Data: Priority and Preference of Mind Activity

6 Compare: Recognize Important Factors For Use: specifically identifying each thing, then comparing it with other things; perception and analysis of the relationship of parts with parts, sometimes relationship of parts to the whole; assessing similarities, differences, tolerances, quality, etc. This is very often a function directly interactive with Synthesizing and Analyzing; if so, it means comparing pieces of the picture with the big picture. (See P, Sensory/Mental Awareness of Pieces of The Picture in the Aptitude For the Job section.)

Compare: recognize important factors for use required to see importance and utility of pieces of the picture; analyze and match fact, data, procedures, systems; fit pieces of the picture into the big picture—or fit pieces with pieces in the context of the big picture.

	A high motivation indicates that this person has excellent skill for identifying factors which are important for vocational use. comparing includes: awareness of the context (big picture) in which the factor or factors would or could fit; relationship of the factors to other factors within that larger context; new possibilities of linkage or relationships of factors to the big picture; and/or new possibilities of linkage or relationships of factors with factors in a new context. This is an important Worker Trait for research, technical activities, systems engineering, operations management, and administrative activity. Many trait combinations can be involved in this activity: scientific, literary, tangible problem solving, visual-artistic, philosophical, and managerial. It is important to identify which of those traits are involved in this perceptual/mental activity.
	Moderate motivation indicates that this person has ability to recognize and identify (or classify) important factors related to the context, content, operations and objectives of projects. Emphasis is on utility. This is an important Worker Trait for research, technical activities, systems engineering, operations management, and administrative activity.
	Low motivation indicates that this person is not curious about where things could be used, where they fit, or how they could be fit together in new ways. Instead, things are seen as they are, in abstraction, without regard to linkage or relationship with other things.