Evaluations

Evaluations are the tests eighteen year olds complete before entering corrective surgery. They are used to determine the severity of surgery needed, and involve using simulations to show what a patient would do in certain scenarios.

History
Evaluations were used before surgery became a widespread thing. They were used to determine how dangerous a person was with regards to keeping The Peace. Gradually, as surgery became compulsory, they were used as a precursor to surgery and determined the level of surgery needed to make a person a citizen of the peace.

Tests
Evaluations take place a month before surgery. An evaluator leads the patient into a plain room, where gas is fed through air vents to create the simulation. The simulation is designed to test three main traits: passivity, honesty and intelligence. Ideally, patients should score high in passivity and honesty, and average in intelligence.

The simulation plays on a person's innate fears and is individual to each person. Results of the simulation are recorded using computers that measure brain activity, and observers who watch the participant during their simulation. The patients are then given scores out of 100 for each of the three traits and report back to their evaluator. The simulation usually lasts a maximum of three minutes.

Known evaluations

 * Beatrice Freede, who saw her young cousin Emily on a table being prepped for corrective surgery. She responded by setting her cousin free, untying her by typing in the code (she judged the code based on the numbers that were the most worn down). When confronted by peace officers in the simulation, Beatrice lied and said her cousin had ran the opposite way in order to bide her more time. Beatrice scored a 93 on intelligence, 3 on passivity and an 11 for honesty.
 * Alice Whitford completed her evaluation knowing that what she was experiencing was a simulation. She was in a burning building where peace officers told her to stay where she was and ignore the screams of others. She obliged, though admitted she found it hard. She scored a 57 on intelligence, 89 for passivity and 100 for honesty.