DP5
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dcbb8bab
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/71#DP5
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Decision Point Id
DP5
Decision Question
When an engineer is queried about the basis for excluding material evidence from an adverse professional report, what honesty and non-distortion obligations govern the engineer's account of those investigative choices?
Focus
Engineer B offered two mutually exclusive post-report explanations for why the pile driving records were excluded from his report — first claiming they were outside his contractual scope of work, then claiming he simply did not believe them — without acknowledging or reconciling the contradiction, raising an independent honesty and non-distortion violation distinct from the substantive omissions in the report itself.
Option1
Provide a single, coherent, and transparent account of why the pile driving records were excluded — either acknowledging they were outside the contracted scope and that this limitation should have been disclosed in the report, or acknowledging they were reviewed and found unreliable and explaining the specific professional basis for that judgment
Option2
Maintain the scope-of-work explanation as the primary justification, acknowledge that the records were brought to the engineer's attention during the engagement, and clarify that the scope limitation was a contractual boundary that the municipality and engineer agreed upon before the work commenced
Option3
Maintain the disbelief explanation as the primary justification, provide the specific technical or documentary basis for finding the records unreliable, and acknowledge that this professional judgment should have been disclosed in the report rather than left unstated
Role Label
Engineer B Adversarial Circumstance Non-Justification Selective Data Use
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2026-03-08 16:29
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