Deliberate Untruth Threshold Applied to Doe Qualification Representation
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/166#Deliberate_Untruth_Threshold_Applied_to_Doe_Qualification_Representation
Properties
Instance of
DeliberateUntruthThresholdforQualificationExaggerationViolation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#DeliberateUntruthThresholdforQualificationExaggerationViolation
Applied to
Doe's resume statements about managerial and administrative aerospace experience
Balancing with
Honesty in Professional Representations
Resume Selective Emphasis Misrepresentation Prohibition
Concrete expression
The board held that Doe's conduct — strongly emphasizing the extent and level of genuine managerial experience — did not constitute 'exaggeration' within the ethics code because it did not involve deliberate untruths about the facts of his former employment, only emphasis on the degree of experience he genuinely possessed
Confidence
0.89
Importance
high
Interpretation
The threshold for an ethics code exaggeration violation requires affirmative fabrication of facts; emphasis on genuine experience, even if the extent is overstated in degree, does not cross this threshold provided some actual competence exists in the emphasized area
Invoked by
John Doe Resume Misrepresenting Job-Seeking Engineer
Tension resolution
The board resolved the tension by anchoring the threshold in the deliberate-untruth requirement, finding that Doe's conduct, while potentially misleading in degree, did not involve the fabrication of non-existent experience
Source Evidence
Source text
We hold that the word 'exaggerated' in the code applies only to deliberate untruths of the facts of former employment rather than the emphasis placed on the degree of experience or other qualifications which may be involved.
Text references
Doe could truthfully show some degree of competence in the managerial and administrative technical area of the employment, even though he strongly emphasized its extent and level.
To be sure, what we have said is a matter of degree.
We hold that the word 'exaggerated' in the code applies only to deliberate untruths of the facts of former employment rather than the emphasis placed on the degree of experience or other qualifications which may be involved.
TTL
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case166:Deliberate_Untruth_Threshold_Applied_to_Doe_Qualification_Representation a proeth:DeliberateUntruthThresholdforQualificationExaggerationViolation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Deliberate Untruth Threshold Applied to Doe Qualification Representation" ;
proeth:appliedto "Doe's resume statements about managerial and administrative aerospace experience" ;
proeth:balancingwith "Honesty in Professional Representations",
"Resume Selective Emphasis Misrepresentation Prohibition" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteexpression "The board held that Doe's conduct — strongly emphasizing the extent and level of genuine managerial experience — did not constitute 'exaggeration' within the ethics code because it did not involve deliberate untruths about the facts of his former employment, only emphasis on the degree of experience he genuinely possessed" ;
proeth:confidence "0.89" ;
proeth:discoveredincase "166" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-02T11:41:23.214071+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "166" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-02T11:41:23.214071+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:interpretation "The threshold for an ethics code exaggeration violation requires affirmative fabrication of facts; emphasis on genuine experience, even if the extent is overstated in degree, does not cross this threshold provided some actual competence exists in the emphasized area" ;
proeth:invokedby "John Doe Resume Misrepresenting Job-Seeking Engineer" ;
proeth:principleclass "Deliberate Untruth Threshold for Qualification Exaggeration Violation" ;
proeth:sourcetext "We hold that the word 'exaggerated' in the code applies only to deliberate untruths of the facts of former employment rather than the emphasis placed on the degree of experience or other qualifications which may be involved." ;
proeth:tensionresolution "The board resolved the tension by anchoring the threshold in the deliberate-untruth requirement, finding that Doe's conduct, while potentially misleading in degree, did not involve the fabrication of non-existent experience" ;
proeth:textreferences "Doe could truthfully show some degree of competence in the managerial and administrative technical area of the employment, even though he strongly emphasized its extent and level.",
"To be sure, what we have said is a matter of degree.",
"We hold that the word 'exaggerated' in the code applies only to deliberate untruths of the facts of former employment rather than the emphasis placed on the degree of experience or other qualifications which may be involved." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 166 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-02T11:50:25.434932"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 166 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
166
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-03-02T11:41:23.214071+00:00
First case
166
Generated
2026-03-02T11:41:23.214071+00:00
Attributed to
Case 166 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-02T11:50:25.434932
Generated by
ProEthica Case 166 Extraction