BER 85-5 Ambiguous Data Omission in Graduate Research
S · State
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/176#BER_85-5_Ambiguous_Data_Omission_in_Graduate_Research
Properties
Instance of
ResearcherBias-MotivatedAmbiguousDataOmissionState
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#ResearcherBias-MotivatedAmbiguousDataOmissionState
Active period
From the point the engineer identified contradictory data through the decision to omit it from the final report
Affected parties
Engineer (BER 85-5)
Future practitioners citing the conclusions
Research community relying on the report
Confidence
0.9
Importance
high
Subject
Engineer in BER Case 85-5 conducting graduate research
Terminated by
Ethics board determination in BER 85-5 that omission was unethical; obligation to include and analyze contradictory data
Triggering event
Engineer's discovery that a subset of compiled data was at variance with the primary conclusions and prior research
Urgency level
medium
Source Evidence
Source text
a few of the aspects of the data were at variance and not fully consistent with the conclusions contained in the engineer's 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
a few of the aspects of the data were at variance and not fully consistent with the conclusions contained in the engineer's report
the Board said it was unethical for an engineer to fail to include certain unsubstantiative data in a report
TTL
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owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "BER 85-5 Ambiguous Data Omission in Graduate Research" ;
proeth:activeperiod "From the point the engineer identified contradictory data through the decision to omit it from the final report" ;
proeth:affectedparties "Engineer (BER 85-5)",
"Future practitioners citing the conclusions",
"Research community relying on the report" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "State" ;
proeth:confidence "0.9" ;
proeth:discoveredincase "176" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "1" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-01T10:58:15.539818+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "176" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-01T10:58:15.539818+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:sourcetext "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:stateclass "Researcher Bias-Motivated Ambiguous Data Omission State" ;
proeth:subject "Engineer in BER Case 85-5 conducting graduate research" ;
proeth:terminatedby "Ethics board determination in BER 85-5 that omission was unethical; obligation to include and analyze contradictory data" ;
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",
"a few of the aspects of the data were at variance and not fully consistent with the conclusions contained in the engineer's report",
"the Board said it was unethical for an engineer to fail to include certain unsubstantiative data in a report" ;
proeth:triggeringevent "Engineer's discovery that a subset of compiled data was at variance with the primary conclusions and prior research" ;
proeth:urgencylevel "medium" ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 176 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-01T11:13:16.192851"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 176 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
176
Discovered in pass
1
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-03-01T10:58:15.539818+00:00
First case
176
Generated
2026-03-01T10:58:15.539818+00:00
Attributed to
Case 176 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-01T11:13:16.192851
Generated by
ProEthica Case 176 Extraction