PUBLIC VOCABULARY

Glossary

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.

Confidence: Moderate
Sources: 22
Review: Editorial review

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Intelligence

analysis

The process of evaluating information, testing hypotheses, expressing uncertainty, and producing decision-relevant judgments.

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World Event Literacy

causal chain

A sequence of proposed mechanisms linking conditions, triggers, decisions, escalation, and consequences, with evidence and uncertainty recorded for each link.

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Information Environments

correction cascade

The propagation of an evidence-linked correction through summaries, translations, indexes, models, profiles, learning paths, search, and other derivative outputs. The current WIP.21 register retains the WIP.19 taxonomy—verified current, corrected, status updated, date bounded, dataset bounded, partially verified, and not established—and records later evidence transitions without editing preserved source bytes or turning uncertainty into a score.

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AI-Driven World Safety

dialogue naturalness

The situated plausibility and distinctiveness of turn-taking, register, uncertainty, disagreement, repair, silence, humor, refusal, and other conversational behavior.

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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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Accountable Evaluation and Review

evidence sufficiency

The degree to which the available, relevant, version-bound, and independently reviewable evidence can answer a scoped question while keeping residual uncertainty and exclusions visible.

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World Event Literacy

missing-context disclosure

A visible notice identifying omitted time, space, frame, source, language, archive, perspective, or uncertainty that could change interpretation.

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Evidence and Verification

Modeled relationship

A relationship produced or represented by a model under stated inputs, assumptions, comparison class, validation, uncertainty, and transfer limits.

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Information Environments

public reasoning

The shared processes through which people and institutions examine claims, evidence, uncertainty, consequences, and alternatives in public life.

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World Event Literacy

visual uncertainty

The explicit representation of spatial, temporal, attribute, source, model, or interpretive uncertainty through words, ranges, patterns, opacity, alternatives, and accessible equivalents.