HCD.17:6 - Bias-Annotation

Institutional prestige and visible carriers make formal editions, standards, schools, repositories, and events easy proxies for culture. Recover the exact value, participants, predicate, positive and negative cases, and available evidence before relying on the label. Later retention or tested-change claims need the observations they assert.

Success in one provider slice creates a scale bias: local receiving use is retold as organizational or field adoption. Preserve the population, period, authority, and unobserved links. Conversely, absence of a field-wide study does not block an honestly bounded current account, continuation, or useful local probe.