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Intelligence analysis is the application of individual and collective cognitive methods to weigh data and test hypotheses within a secret socio-cultural context.[1] The descriptions are drawn from what may only be available in the form of deliberately deceptive information; the analyst must correlate the similarities among deceptions and extract a common truth. Although its practice is found in its purest form inside national intelligence agencies, its methods are also applicable in fields such as business intelligence or competitive intelligence.
- ^ Hayes, Joseph (2007), "Analytic Culture in the U.S. Intelligence Community. Chapter One. Working Definitions.", History Staff, Center for the Study of Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency, archived from the original on June 13, 2007, retrieved 2016-05-24