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Solution 3: Psych Profile

As indicated by the sentence, "Please call the survey administrators for assistance in analyzing this data," the first task in solving this clue is to call the Colombians who administered the survey. The Colombians, of course, can be reached the automated help-line, but it is immediately clear what their extension is.

Converting the Numéro de Referencia from numbers to letters using 01=A, 02=B, ... 26=Z provides their extension:

03011212-052420-0315121513020901
 C A L L  E X T  C O L O M B I A

On a phone keypad, the extension COLOMBIA is equivalent to 26566242. Upon entering this extension, players hear a recorded message:

"Welcome to the English language help-line for the Government of Colombia. To contact the ministry of truth, press 1. To contact the ministry of peace, press 2. To contact the ministry of love, press 3. To contact the ministry of plenty, press 4. To hear this menu again, press 0."

Each of the Ministries responds with a short recorded phone message:

Truth: "Two and two make five."
Peace: "War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."
Love: "Thoughtcrime does not entail death. Thoughtcrime is death."
Plenty: "He loved big brother."

Conspicuously, each of the psychological attributes in Victor Dement's profile are synonyms of either truth, peace, love, or plenty. Furthermore, the introductory paragraph hints that the profile was a "1984 Index of important character traits". To arrive at the solution, index into the 1984 quote (take the nth letter) using the score from the profile.

Attribute	Ministry	Index	Phrase
Fruitfulness	Plenty	3	He loved big brother.
Calmness	Peace	2	War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
Trustworthiness	Truth	12	Two and two make five.
Lust	Love	12	Thoughtcrime does not entail death. Thoughtcrime is death.
Veracity	Truth	10	Two and two make five.
Fertility	Plenty	2	He loved big brother.
Serenity	Peace	3	War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
Infatuation	Love	9	Thoughtcrime does not entail death. Thoughtcrime is death.
Tranquility	Peace	4	War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
Adulation	Love	1	Thoughtcrime does not entail death. Thoughtcrime is death.
Honesty	Truth	7	Two and two make five

Reading the indexed letters from top to bottom gives the next destination, LAKE MERRITT.

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