{
  "schema": "vedokrok.public-item.v1",
  "release_id": "MHC-RPUB-20260920-75ad787a",
  "url": "/knowledge/standardize-irrelevant-context-across-cases",
  "id": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-0412",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "title": "Standardize irrelevant context across cases",
  "summary": "If the paper color should not matter, do not let it become a hidden experimental variable.",
  "kind": "protocol",
  "body": "Identify context features that should not influence the judgment and hold them constant or randomize them across cases. Use the same information order and presentation where comparison matters. When identity or source status is not decision-relevant, blind it during the initial judgment if operationally and ethically appropriate.",
  "limits": [
    "Never blind information that is actually required for safety, authorization, legal context or legitimate interpretation."
  ],
  "topics": [
    "union-decision-hygiene-noise"
  ],
  "intents": [],
  "source_ids": [
    "RS-687C74439B4BD8F2"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    {
      "claim": "Decision-noise research distinguishes level noise, stable pattern noise and occasion noise, which arise from different sources and require different diagnostics.",
      "source_id": "RS-687C74439B4BD8F2",
      "role": "supports",
      "note": "The taxonomy is a conceptual model; real systems can contain several forms of noise at once.",
      "locator": "Noise taxonomy"
    }
  ],
  "use_when": [
    "Judgments should depend on case content but may also be influenced by order, formatting, identity or presentation differences."
  ],
  "avoid_when": [
    "Never blind information that is actually required for safety, authorization, legal context or legitimate interpretation."
  ],
  "example": "Present candidate incident reports in the same structure and randomize order instead of placing the most politically visible case first.",
  "check": "A case would receive the same intended evidence even if its non-relevant presentation details changed.",
  "steps": [
    "Which presentation details should have zero influence on this judgment?",
    "Can they be standardized or randomized?",
    "Is reviewer order exposing later cases to fatigue or learning effects?",
    "Does identity need to be visible for the decision itself?"
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "RS-687C74439B4BD8F2",
      "title": "Human judgment error in the intensive care unit: a perspective on bias and noise",
      "url": "https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13054-025-05315-9"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "from": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-0412",
      "to": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-0413",
      "type": "useful_with",
      "url": "/knowledge/run-a-duplicate-case-noise-audit"
    }
  ],
  "collections": [
    {
      "id": "RC-E41621E574ADAE4A",
      "title": "Reduce judgment noise without erasing useful disagreement",
      "url": "/collections/reduce-judgment-noise-without-erasing-useful-disagreement"
    }
  ]
}