Engineer B Intellectual Honesty in Expert Report
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/71#Engineer_B_Intellectual_Honesty_in_Expert_Report
Definition
Engineer B's report presented conclusions about pile inadequacy without acknowledging the existence of wave equation analysis that contradicted those conclusions, without disclosing that driving records were not reviewed, and without disclosing the equipment failure, representing a failure of intellectual honesty in the presentation of technical findings.
Properties
Instance of
Applied to
Concluding report on test pile driving and original pile adequacy
Balancing with
Faithful Agent Duty Principle
Concrete expression
Engineer B's report presented conclusions about pile inadequacy without acknowledging the existence of wave equation analysis that contradicted those conclusions, without disclosing that driving records were not reviewed, and without disclosing the equipment failure, representing a failure of intellectual honesty in the presentation of technical findings.
Confidence
0.9
Interpretation
Intellectual honesty requires engineers to acknowledge evidence that contradicts their conclusions and to disclose the limitations of their analysis, even when doing so is inconvenient to the retaining party.
Tension resolution
The duty of intellectual honesty in professional reports is not overridden by the retaining party's interest in a favorable expert opinion.
Match Confidence
0.95
Match Reasoning
Individual typed as existing ontology class 'Intellectual Honesty'
Matched Ontology Label
Intellectual Honesty
Matches Existing
true
Synthesis Literal
appliedTo
balancingWith
concreteExpression
confidence
interpretation
principleClass
tensionResolution
textReferences
Relationships
invokedBy
Agent Engineer B
Source Evidence
Text references
Additionally, Engineer B did not report that the dynamic test equipment had failed.
Engineer B did not state anywhere in the report that these 19 piles, according to the pile driving records, had been driven to essential refusal and that, applying accepted wave equation calculations, the piles would have indicated a strength several multiples over the calculated load requirements.
Previously, Engineer B had said, 'We didn't look at the pile driving records because it was not in our scope of work.'
Source text
Engineer B did not state anywhere in the report that these 19 piles, according to the pile driving records, had been driven to essential refusal and that, applying accepted wave equation calculations, the piles would have indicated a strength several multiples over the calculated load requirements.
TTL
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case71:Engineer_B_Intellectual_Honesty_in_Expert_Report a proeth:IntellectualHonesty,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer B Intellectual Honesty in Expert Report" ;
proeth-core:invokedBy case71:Agent_Engineer_B ;
proeth:appliedTo "Concluding report on test pile driving and original pile adequacy" ;
proeth:balancingWith "Faithful Agent Duty Principle" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteExpression "Engineer B's report presented conclusions about pile inadequacy without acknowledging the existence of wave equation analysis that contradicted those conclusions, without disclosing that driving records were not reviewed, and without disclosing the equipment failure, representing a failure of intellectual honesty in the presentation of technical findings." ;
proeth:confidence "0.9" ;
proeth:interpretation "Intellectual honesty requires engineers to acknowledge evidence that contradicts their conclusions and to disclose the limitations of their analysis, even when doing so is inconvenient to the retaining party." ;
proeth:invokedBy "Engineer B Litigation Expert" ;
proeth:principleClass "Intellectual Honesty" ;
proeth:tensionResolution "The duty of intellectual honesty in professional reports is not overridden by the retaining party's interest in a favorable expert opinion." ;
proeth:textReferences "Additionally, Engineer B did not report that the dynamic test equipment had failed.",
"Engineer B did not state anywhere in the report that these 19 piles, according to the pile driving records, had been driven to essential refusal and that, applying accepted wave equation calculations, the piles would have indicated a strength several multiples over the calculated load requirements.",
"Previously, Engineer B had said, 'We didn't look at the pile driving records because it was not in our scope of work.'" ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInCase 71 ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInPass 2 ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInSection "facts" ;
proeth-prov:firstDiscoveredAt "2026-06-04T14:30:07.628947+00:00"^^xsd:dateTime ;
proeth-prov:firstDiscoveredInCase 71 ;
proeth-prov:matchConfidence 0.95 ;
proeth-prov:matchReasoning "Individual typed as existing ontology class 'Intellectual Honesty'" ;
proeth-prov:matchedOntologyClass <http://proethica.org/ontology/principles#Intellectual_Honesty> ;
proeth-prov:matchedOntologyLabel "Intellectual Honesty" ;
proeth-prov:matchesExisting true ;
proeth-prov:sourceText "Engineer B did not state anywhere in the report that these 19 piles, according to the pile driving records, had been driven to essential refusal and that, applying accepted wave equation calculations, the piles would have indicated a strength several multiples over the calculated load requirements." ;
proeth-prov:synthesisLiteral "appliedTo",
"balancingWith",
"concreteExpression",
"confidence",
"interpretation",
"principleClass",
"tensionResolution",
"textReferences" ;
rdfs:comment "Engineer B's report presented conclusions about pile inadequacy without acknowledging the existence of wave equation analysis that contradicted those conclusions, without disclosing that driving records were not reviewed, and without disclosing the equipment failure, representing a failure of intellectual honesty in the presentation of technical findings." ;
skos:definition "Engineer B's report presented conclusions about pile inadequacy without acknowledging the existence of wave equation analysis that contradicted those conclusions, without disclosing that driving records were not reviewed, and without disclosing the equipment failure, representing a failure of intellectual honesty in the presentation of technical findings." ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-06-04T14:30:07.628947+00:00"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasAttributedTo "Case 71 Extraction",
"claude-sonnet-4-6" ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 71 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
71
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-06-04T14:30:07.628947+00:00
First case
71
Generated
2026-06-04T14:30:07.628947+00:00
Attributed to
['Case 71 Extraction', 'claude-sonnet-4-6']
Generated by
ProEthica Case 71 Extraction