MDPE.12:2.2 - Separate the subject, indication, and judgement

The subject is what exists or happens in the world: a performance occurrence, artifact, movement relation, rhythmic structure, performer capability, partner interaction, recognition response, transmission event, or continuing practice relation.

An indication is something used as evidence: a detected onset, force trace, coded movement, report, count, recording, review, or archive record. The indication is not automatically the characteristic inferred from it.

A judgement says what the observations mean for the current decision. Name the practitioner or other capable Agent making that judgement.

Examples of observation families include:

Observation family	What it can support	What it does not establish alone
technical indication	timing, pitch, kinematics, contact, latency, code state, or another bounded characteristic under stated conditions	performer experience, partner meaning, artistic value, recognition, or uptake
performer report or behaviour	control, effort, attention, fluency, comfort, surprise, or expression for this task and configuration	transfer to other contexts or audience response
partner or participant response	readability, timing, connection, consent, safety, or engagement for these participants and conditions	whole-population recognition or stylistic legitimacy
practitioner judgement	an interpretation by a capable musician, dancer, teacher, judge, curator, or historian for one use	authority over every affected participant or evidence of prevalence
recognition observation	discrimination or identification by a named population in a stated task	selection, adoption, value, causal effect, or retention
cultural observation	transmission, copying, teaching, event use, amplification, persistence, transformation, or loss in a named practice and period	project authority, universal prevalence, or intervention effect

The rows are kinds of observation, not levels of one stack and not mandatory steps.