{ "model": { "rank": 5041, "code": "thing-effort", "model_id": "vr.tr.effort", "name": "effort", "purpose": "use of physical or mental energy; hard work", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Activities and processes", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "ACT", "domain": "ACT.ACT", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/effort/", "tier": 2, "score": 70, "payload": { "layer": "wordnet", "aliases": [ "attrition", "crucifix", "dip", "double leg circle", "grand circle", "cardiopulmonary exercise", "gymnastic exercise", "handstand", "hang", "bent hang", "inverted hang", "lever hang", "reverse hang", "straight hang", "piked reverse hang", "kick up", "kip", "upstart", "long fly", "scissors", "straddle", "elbow grease", "exertion", "travail", "sweat", "struggle", "wrestle", "wrestling", "grapple", "grappling", "hand-to-hand struggle", "trouble", "difficulty", "the devil", "tsuris", "least effort", "least resistance", "strain", "straining", "exercise" ], "aliasCount": 106, "merged": 70, "knownIn": 0, "facets": { "substance": "activity", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert", "mobility": "not-applicable", "scale": "not-applicable", "affordances": [ "observable" ] }, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "noun.act", "senseRank": 1, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "oewn:2024", "synset": "oewn-00622867-n", "ili": "i38691", "license": "CC BY 4.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T21:32:13Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 20.8, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.4\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a08814-f93f-7171-be92-d2c3011c9524\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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ACT / ACT.ACT) as the use of physical or mental energy in an activity, including how exertion is defined, experienced, inferred and regulated; competing meanings of energy and hard work remain explicit.", "in_scope": [ "Physical, mental and combined exertion by an identified actor during a bounded activity", "Definitions of effort and the criteria different fields use to recognise an instance", "Experienced effort, observable indicators and the limits of operational measures", "Allocation, persistence, adjustment and withdrawal of effort", "Relationships between effort, available capacity, task demands and outcomes" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Motivation, incentives and intentions considered independently of exertion", "Task difficulty and workload considered independently of an actor's response", "Performance, productivity and achievement considered independently of their effort requirements", "Fatigue, pain, illness and recovery as standalone conditions or processes", "Energy as a physical quantity and work as mechanical energy transfer", "Project estimation uses of effort to mean planned labour time" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "An instance requires evidence or a report of exertion; wanting, promising or intending to act does not establish effort.", "A difficult task does not establish high effort unless the actor's engagement is also evidenced.", "Duration alone does not establish effort intensity: a long activity may contain low exertion or substantial idle time.", "Success and failure do not determine effort: the model must allow unsuccessful exertion and successful low-exertion performance.", "A report of felt effort and an estimate of physiological expenditure remain separately identifiable, even when both concern the same activity." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Effort conception", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Experienced exertion; physiological expenditure; deliberate mobilisation; observable persistence; another explicitly defined conception", "why_it_matters": "Prevents evidence collected under one definition from silently answering questions posed under another." }, { "name": "Actor and activity", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Actor linked to a specified activity, goal and observation interval", "why_it_matters": "Makes clear whose exertion is being assessed and what it is directed towards." }, { "name": "Exertion modality", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Physical; mental; combined; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Guides the choice of questions and measures without presuming that modalities share a common scale." }, { "name": "Experienced intensity", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Actor rating with named instrument, anchors, range and reporting time; unknown when unreported", "why_it_matters": "Captures felt exertion while preserving the conditions needed to interpret the rating." }, { "name": "Effort indicator", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Named behavioural or physiological 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"Definitions in use", "description": "Record competing conceptions and the communities or sources that use them.", "findings": [ { "id": "working-conception", "name": "Working conception", "description": "A place to establish whether effort denotes experience, expenditure, mobilisation or another explicitly supported construct.", "questions": [ { "text": "How does the selected conception define effort, and is its use of energy literal, metaphorical or operational?", "kind": "definition", "id": "working-conception-q01" }, { "text": "Which read sources and research traditions support this conception, and which competing definitions do they distinguish?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "working-conception-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "episode-membership", "name": "Episode membership", "description": "Establish what activity and exertion evidence make an instance eligible.", "findings": [ { "id": "exertion-versus-adjacent-constructs", "name": "Exertion versus adjacent constructs", "description": "Separate an effort episode from intention, exposure to demands, mere duration and resulting achievement.", "questions": [ { "text": "What identifies the actor, activity and beginning and end of the proposed exertion episode?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "exertion-versus-adjacent-constructs-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence supports exertion rather than only motivation, task difficulty, time spent or output?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "exertion-versus-adjacent-constructs-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "felt-effort-and-indicators", "name": "Felt effort and indicators", "description": "Represent subjective reports and indirect observations with their interpretation limits.", "rationale": "Effort assessment needs to preserve differences between what an actor experiences and what an observer can measure.", "layers": [ { "id": "experienced-exertion", "name": "Experienced exertion", "description": "Capture the actor's account of how demanding exertion feels.", "findings": [ { "id": "effort-rating-context", "name": "Effort rating context", "description": "Specify rating anchors, timing and the sensations the actor was asked to judge.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which scale and anchors were used, and was the rating collected during exertion or retrospectively?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "effort-rating-context-q01" }, { "text": "How did the instructions distinguish felt effort from pain, discomfort, fatigue and frustration?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "effort-rating-context-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "indirect-effort-evidence", "name": "Indirect effort evidence", "description": "Assess what behavioural or physiological observations can establish in this setting.", "findings": [ { "id": "indicator-validity", "name": "Indicator validity", "description": "Document the evidence and assumptions connecting an indicator to the selected effort conception.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence validates the selected indicator for this activity, population and definition of effort?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "indicator-validity-q01" }, { "text": "Which alternative explanations, such as arousal, movement, strategy or skill, could produce the observed indicator value?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "indicator-validity-q02" }, { "text": "How should disagreement between an indicator and the actor's report affect the assessment?", "kind": "action", "id": "indicator-validity-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "demands-capacity-and-efficiency", "name": "Demands, capacity and efficiency", "description": "Relate exertion to what the activity requires and what the actor can currently do.", "rationale": "Effort cannot be interpreted reliably from task specifications or output alone.", "layers": [ { "id": "actor-relative-demands", "name": "Actor-relative demands", "description": "Describe physical and mental requirements against relevant capacity references.", "findings": [ { "id": "demand-capacity-reference", "name": "Demand and capacity reference", "description": "Make the actor-specific basis of relative effort judgements explicit.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which physical or mental demands are present, and which are actually engaged by the actor's strategy?", "kind": "definition", "id": "demand-capacity-reference-q01" }, { "text": "What current capacity assessment or baseline supports interpreting those demands as relatively high or low?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "demand-capacity-reference-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "effort-output-relationship", "name": "Effort-output relationship", "description": "Examine how skill, tools and strategy affect the effort associated with performance.", "findings": [ { "id": "comparison-conditions", "name": "Comparison conditions", "description": "State when effort comparisons across attempts or actors are interpretable.", "questions": [ { "text": "Were task conditions, output quality, skill, assistance and measurement methods sufficiently comparable?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "comparison-conditions-q01" }, { "text": "Could a change in observed effort reflect a different strategy or level of assistance rather than a change in commitment?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "comparison-conditions-q02" }, { "text": "Which adjustment could reduce unnecessary exertion while preserving the actor's intended result?", "kind": "action", "id": "comparison-conditions-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "effort-allocation-and-persistence", "name": "Effort allocation and persistence", "description": "Describe how exertion is distributed over time and adjusted during activity.", "rationale": "A single intensity label misses bursts, pauses, competing demands and withdrawal.", "layers": [ { "id": "temporal-exertion-profile", "name": "Temporal exertion profile", "description": "Represent active periods, fluctuations and interruptions.", "findings": [ { "id": "intensity-duration-pattern", "name": "Intensity and duration pattern", "description": "Capture how exertion changes without treating elapsed time as accumulated effort.", "questions": [ { "text": "When did active exertion, pauses and substantial intensity changes occur?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "intensity-duration-pattern-q01" }, { "text": "Does the chosen measure justify aggregation across time, and what information would an aggregate conceal?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "intensity-duration-pattern-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "regulation-and-withdrawal", "name": "Regulation and withdrawal", "description": "Record decisions to mobilise, sustain, redistribute or stop exertion.", "findings": [ { "id": "effort-adjustment-basis", "name": "Effort adjustment basis", "description": "Connect changes in exertion to stated goals, feedback, competing activities and actor limits.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence explains an increase, reduction or withdrawal of effort without assuming laziness or lack of motivation?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "effort-adjustment-basis-q01" }, { "text": "Given the actor's goals, feedback and reported limits, should the next step be persistence, a strategy change, assistance, a pause or stopping?", "kind": "action", "id": "effort-adjustment-basis-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "effort-attribution-and-judgement", "name": "Effort attribution and judgement", "description": "Examine who judges effort and what those judgements warrant.", "rationale": "Hard work is often an evaluative attribution, and decisions based on it require more than visible activity or successful results.", "layers": [ { "id": "attribution-perspectives", "name": "Attribution perspectives", "description": "Keep actor reports, observer assessments and institutional labels distinguishable.", "findings": [ { "id": "basis-of-hard-work-claims", "name": "Basis of hard-work claims", "description": "Trace claims of high or low effort to their claimant, criteria and evidence.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who describes this activity as hard work, and what criteria do they apply?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "basis-of-hard-work-claims-q01" }, { "text": "Which aspects of exertion are unavailable to the observer, and how does that limit the attribution?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "basis-of-hard-work-claims-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "decisions-from-effort-evidence", "name": "Decisions from effort evidence", "description": "Determine which practical conclusions an effort assessment supports.", "findings": [ { "id": "warranted-effort-decisions", "name": "Warranted effort decisions", "description": "Separate descriptive assessment from judgements about credit, obligation and support.", "questions": [ { "text": "What additional criteria are required before an effort estimate can justify praise, reward, workload changes or corrective feedback?", "kind": "action", "id": "warranted-effort-decisions-q01" }, { "text": "How can the actor correct or contest an effort attribution, especially when low visible output prompted it?", "kind": "action", "id": "warranted-effort-decisions-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "This covers exertion and hard work, not 'an effort' meaning an organized undertaking or an individual attempt.", "Psychological accounts differ over whether effort is primarily resource mobilization, control allocation, experienced exertion or willingness to bear costs; no single operationalization 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to verify.", "evidence": [ "Adjusting exercise intensity using perceived exertion.", "Assessing the demands of jobs, equipment and interfaces in ergonomics.", "Studying how motivation, incentives and fatigue affect task engagement.", "Planning rehabilitation activities relative to a person's capacity.", "Evaluating the effort required for learning and problem solving." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of effort this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Perceived exertion on the Borg Rating of Perceived Exertion scale", "typical_range": "6-20, the scale's bounds rather than a population reference range", "unit": "Ordinal rating" }, { "quantity": "Subjectively rated effort on the NASA Task Load 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relative to capacity; effort concerns exertion during the attempt, and a difficult task can be abandoned with little effort." }, { "name": "Motivation", "difference": "Motivation concerns processes that initiate and direct action; effort concerns the exertion invested in carrying it out." }, { "name": "Fatigue", "difference": "Fatigue concerns tiredness or reduced capacity; effort is exertion and may occur before fatigue develops." }, { "name": "Performance", "difference": "Performance concerns achieved results; substantial effort can yield poor results, and skilled performance can require little effort." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of effort this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Which reference works and research traditions provide the most useful competing definitions of physical and mental effort, and 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What is recognised is an instance of it, and which instances count is exactly what is argued about." ], "relatedModels": [ { "relation": "covers", "note": "Finer kinds folded into this entry because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it. Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.", "targets": [ "attrition", "crucifix", "dip", "double leg circle", "grand circle", "cardiopulmonary exercise", "gymnastic exercise", "handstand", "hang", "bent hang", "inverted hang", "lever hang" ] } ], "standing": "70 finer distinctions are held inside this entry as names rather than as separate models.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one effort from another, and a effort from things that resemble it.", "rationale": "Recognition comes before every other claim. Without stable identity nothing else in the model can be trusted to be about the same thing twice.", "layers": [ { "id": "naming-and-identifiers", "name": "Names and identifiers", "description": "The names this thing goes by and the identifiers that survive translation and time.", "findings": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases", "name": "Preferred name, aliases and local names", "description": "Which name to use, which names mean the same thing, and which merely sound similar.", "questions": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the name of a effort, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the name of a effort, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a effort is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers", "name": "Stable identifiers and external keys", "description": "Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.", "questions": [ { "id": "stable-identifiers-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a effort, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a effort, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a effort is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification-and-granularity", "name": "Classification and granularity", "description": "Where a effort sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.", "findings": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents", "name": "Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds", "description": "The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.", "questions": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a effort, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a effort, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a effort is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features", "name": "Distinguishing features", "description": "What separates a effort from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a effort, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a effort, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a effort is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "state-and-lifecycle", "name": "State and lifecycle", "description": "The states a effort passes through and the events that move it between them.", "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifecycle-stages", "name": "Lifecycle stages", "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.", "findings": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions", "name": "Stages and transitions", "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a effort between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a effort, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a effort, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a effort is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observations-and-status", "name": "Observations and current status", "description": "What is observed about a effort, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a effort is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a effort, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a effort, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a effort is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "process-and-outcome", "name": "Process, inputs and outcome", "description": "How a effort proceeds, what it needs and what it leaves behind.", "rationale": "An activity is known by its steps and its results, and both have to be recordable while it is still running.", "layers": [ { "id": "steps-and-sequence", "name": "Steps and sequence", "description": "The steps of a effort, their order and what may run in parallel.", "findings": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions", "name": "Steps, preconditions and completion", "description": "What has to be true before each step of a effort and what marks it done.", "questions": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a step of a effort, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a step of a effort, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a step of a effort is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-results", "name": "Inputs, resources and results", "description": "What a effort consumes and what it produces.", "findings": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs", "name": "Inputs, outputs and side effects", "description": "The resources a effort takes and the results it leaves, wanted or not.", "questions": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the inputs and results of a effort, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the inputs and results of a effort, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the inputs and results of a effort is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "definitions-in-contest", "name": "Definitions and who holds them", "description": "What effort is taken to mean, and by whom.", "rationale": "When a field disagrees about a concept, the disagreement is the content. A model that picks one definition silently destroys the information.", "layers": [ { "id": "competing-definitions", "name": "Competing definitions", "description": "The main readings and the traditions behind them.", "findings": [ { "id": "definition-map", "name": "Definitions and their holders", "description": "Each definition with the school or body that holds it.", "questions": [ { "id": "definition-map-q01", "text": "Which definitions of effort are in use, and which tradition or body holds each?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "definition-map-q02", "text": "What turns on the difference between them in practice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "operationalisation", "name": "Operationalisation", "description": "How it is measured or applied when it has to be.", "findings": [ { "id": "operational-record", "name": "Measures and proxies", "description": "Instruments and indicators used to stand in for it.", "questions": [ { "id": "operational-record-q01", "text": "How is effort operationalised or measured in practice, and by what instrument?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "operational-record-q02", "text": "What does that operationalisation leave out, and when does that matter?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "instances-and-use", "name": "Instances, use and consequence", "description": "What counts as an instance of effort and what follows from calling something that.", "rationale": "Applying a concept is an act with consequences, so a model must say what the label licenses and what it does not.", "layers": [ { "id": "instances", "name": "What counts as an instance", "description": "Clear cases, borderline cases and non-cases.", "findings": [ { "id": "instance-tests", "name": "Tests for an instance", "description": "What would settle whether something falls under it.", "questions": [ { "id": "instance-tests-q01", "text": "What would settle whether something is an instance of effort?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "instance-tests-q02", "text": "Which borderline cases are argued about, and on what grounds?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "consequence", "name": "Consequence of application", "description": "Rights, duties or decisions that follow from the label.", "findings": [ { "id": "consequence-record", "name": "What the label licenses", "description": "What an agent may do once something is classified this way.", "questions": [ { "id": "consequence-record-q01", "text": "What follows practically once something is treated as effort?", "kind": "action" }, { "id": "consequence-record-q02", "text": "What must an agent not infer from the label alone?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a effort came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-and-authority", "name": "Source and authority", "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-provenance", "name": "Claim provenance and confidence", "description": "The authority behind each claim about a effort and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a effort, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a effort, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a effort is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "time-and-versions", "name": "Time, versions and supersession", "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.", "findings": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession", "name": "Validity period and supersession", "description": "How an old claim about a effort is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a effort, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a effort, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a effort is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 12, "findings": 14, "questions": 38 } } } }