{
  "schema": "vedokrok.public-item.v1",
  "release_id": "MHC-RPUB-20260920-75ad787a",
  "url": "/knowledge/decompose-the-judgment-before-scoring-the-whole",
  "id": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-0410",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "title": "Decompose the judgment before scoring the whole",
  "summary": "A single number can hide five different arguments.",
  "kind": "protocol",
  "body": "Break the judgment into a small set of components that jointly matter, score or assess those components before the overall verdict, then integrate them using the agreed process. Decomposition makes inconsistency inspectable and prevents one vivid feature from silently dominating everything else.",
  "limits": [
    "Do not decompose away an emergent property that genuinely depends on the whole pattern; leave room for a documented holistic check."
  ],
  "topics": [
    "union-decision-hygiene-noise"
  ],
  "intents": [],
  "source_ids": [
    "RS-755DDB8F19ABC634"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    {
      "claim": "A century of selection research reviewed by Annual Reviews supports decomposing complex judgments into components and applying standards consistently to reduce noise.",
      "source_id": "RS-755DDB8F19ABC634",
      "role": "supports",
      "note": "Decomposition can omit emergent qualities when components do not capture the real judgment target.",
      "locator": "Structuring judgment process"
    }
  ],
  "use_when": [
    "A complex case receives one holistic score and reviewers disagree without knowing which part drove the difference."
  ],
  "avoid_when": [
    "Do not decompose away an emergent property that genuinely depends on the whole pattern; leave room for a documented holistic check."
  ],
  "example": "Assess deployment risk separately for reversibility, blast radius, observability and data integrity before assigning the overall risk level.",
  "check": "When two reviewers disagree overall, the team can locate the component where their judgments diverge.",
  "steps": [
    "When two reviewers disagree overall, the team can locate the component where their judgments diverge."
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "RS-755DDB8F19ABC634",
      "title": "Improving Workplace Judgments by Reducing Noise: Lessons Learned from a Century of Selection Research",
      "url": "https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-orgpsych-120920-050708"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "from": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-0410",
      "to": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-0418",
      "type": "use_before",
      "url": "/knowledge/measure-agreement-on-the-criteria-not-only-the-verdict"
    }
  ],
  "collections": [
    {
      "id": "RC-E41621E574ADAE4A",
      "title": "Reduce judgment noise without erasing useful disagreement",
      "url": "/collections/reduce-judgment-noise-without-erasing-useful-disagreement"
    }
  ]
}