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Definitions used across intelligence literacy, evidence, oversight, influence, identity, mental health, personas, and game mechanics. A definition explains site usage; it does not replace jurisdiction-specific law or individual clinical assessment.

REAL-WORLD INTERPRETIVE Editorial synthesis or explanation derived from sources and explicitly open to correction.
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Information Environments

archival silence

An absence or distortion in the record produced by noncollection, exclusion, destruction, secrecy, power imbalance, or loss.

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PSYOPS primary sources, artifacts, and evidence

Archive finding aid

A catalog or descriptive guide that identifies collections and records without necessarily reproducing or validating every item.

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Intelligence

collection

The acquisition of information through authorized sources or methods. Raw collection is not a finished assessment.

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Evidence

collection bias

Systematic distortion created by what can be collected, what is prioritized, and what remains unseen.

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Simulation Literacy

ensemble

A collection of model runs, structures, datasets, or parameter sets used to represent uncertainty. Members should not be treated as independent when they share the same evidence and assumptions.

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World Event Literacy

Event ledger

A structured collection of event and annual-development records with stable IDs, dates, status, location fields, source starting points, and explicit evidence-state labels.

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Intelligence

intelligence requirement

A decision-relevant question that guides collection and analysis.

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Oversight

minimization

Rules or practices limiting collection, retention, dissemination, and secondary use of information.

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World Event Literacy

Scenario register

A structured collection of explicitly fictional planning cases with stable identifiers, assumptions, uncertainties, source baselines, and visible non-prediction labels.

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Evidence

source

A person, document, system, observation, dataset, or collection channel from which information is derived.

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