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MA.1:6 - Bias-Annotation

An accountant may favor categories already present in the ledger; an operator may favor the resource easiest to observe. Both can miss the relation that changes the answer. Compare their accounts around the actual work and keep different units explicit.

The order example concerns a commercial service and a short horizon. Its arithmetic does not establish that profit is every organization’s purpose or that all long-run choices can be made from short-run payments. Public and internal services can use the same construction to explain required resources while obtaining their objectives and decision criteria from the responsible practice.