BER-85-5 Research Engineer Variance Data Omission Ethical Violation
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/176#BER-85-5_Research_Engineer_Variance_Data_Omission_Ethical_Violation
Properties
Instance of
VarianceDataInclusioninTechnicalReportObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#VarianceDataInclusioninTechnicalReportObligation
Case context
Graduate research report where the majority of data supported the engineer's conclusions but a minority of data points were at variance; engineer omitted the variance data to protect the report's persuasive thrust.
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.92
Importance
high
Obligated party
BER Case 85-5 Graduate Research Engineer
Obligation statement
The BER 85-5 engineer was obligated to include all compiled data — including minority data at variance with the report's conclusions — in the research report, rather than omitting such data based on subjective conviction in the report's soundness.
Temporal scope
At the time of compiling and finalizing the research report
Relationships
competesWith
BER-85-5 Precedent Confirmation Bias Resistance Cross-Application to Dispute Resolution
defeasibleUnder
BER 85-5 Ambiguous Data Omission in Graduate Research
Source Evidence
Source text
In BER Case 85-5, the Board said it was unethical for an engineer to fail to include certain unsubstantiative data in a report.
Text references
Convinced of the soundness of his report and concerned that inclusion of the ambiguous data would detract from and distort the essential thrust of the report, the engineer decided to omit reference to the ambiguous report.
In BER Case 85-5, the Board said it was unethical for an engineer to fail to include certain unsubstantiative data in a report.
a few of the aspects of the data were at variance and not fully consistent with the conclusions contained in the engineer's report
TTL
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case176:BER-85-5_Research_Engineer_Variance_Data_Omission_Ethical_Violation a proeth:VarianceDataInclusioninTechnicalReportObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "BER-85-5 Research Engineer Variance Data Omission Ethical Violation" ;
proeth-core:competesWith case176:BER-85-5_Precedent_Confirmation_Bias_Resistance_Cross-Application_to_Dispute_Resolution ;
proeth-core:defeasibleUnder case176:BER_85-5_Ambiguous_Data_Omission_in_Graduate_Research ;
proeth:casecontext "Graduate research report where the majority of data supported the engineer's conclusions but a minority of data points were at variance; engineer omitted the variance data to protect the report's persuasive thrust." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unmet" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.92" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case176:Confirmation_Bias_Resistance_Invoked_in_BER_85-5_Research_Report,
case176:Objectivity_Obligation_Invoked_in_BER_85-5_Research_Report_Context ;
proeth:discoveredincase "176" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-01T11:05:20.105198+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "176" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-01T11:05:20.105198+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "BER Case 85-5 Graduate Research Engineer" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Variance Data Inclusion in Technical Report Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "The BER 85-5 engineer was obligated to include all compiled data — including minority data at variance with the report's conclusions — in the research report, rather than omitting such data based on subjective conviction in the report's soundness." ;
proeth:sourcetext "In BER Case 85-5, the Board said it was unethical for an engineer to fail to include certain unsubstantiative data in a report." ;
proeth:temporalscope "At the time of compiling and finalizing the research report" ;
proeth:textreferences "Convinced of the soundness of his report and concerned that inclusion of the ambiguous data would detract from and distort the essential thrust of the report, the engineer decided to omit reference to the ambiguous report.",
"In BER Case 85-5, the Board said it was unethical for an engineer to fail to include certain unsubstantiative data in a report.",
"a few of the aspects of the data were at variance and not fully consistent with the conclusions contained in the engineer's report" ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 176 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-01T11:13:16.200375"^^xsd:dateTime ;
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Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
176
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-03-01T11:05:20.105198+00:00
First case
176
Generated
2026-03-01T11:05:20.105198+00:00
Attributed to
Case 176 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-01T11:13:16.200375
Generated by
ProEthica Case 176 Extraction