Subordinate Materiality Judgment Deferral Constraint
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3a34a20a
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#SubordinateMaterialityJudgmentDeferralConstraint
Definition
Ethical and procedural constraint arising from an engineer intern or unlicensed subordinate's lack of qualification to independently assess the materiality, urgency, or systemic significance of discovered information — requiring that the subordinate defer all potentially material information upward to the supervising licensed professional engineer rather than exercising independent judgment about what to include or omit from reports, prohibiting the intern from filtering, prioritizing, or withholding information on the basis of their own unqualified assessment of its relevance or importance.
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Definition
Ethical and procedural constraint arising from an engineer intern or unlicensed subordinate's lack of qualification to independently assess the materiality, urgency, or systemic significance of discovered information — requiring that the subordinate defer all potentially material information upward to the supervising licensed professional engineer rather than exercising independent judgment about what to include or omit from reports, prohibiting the intern from filtering, prioritizing, or withholding information on the basis of their own unqualified assessment of its relevance or importance.
Source Evidence
Source Text
Engineer Intern A reported the defect to Engineer B but did not report the fact that the defect had been visibly obvious for at least five years
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rdfs:label "Subordinate Materiality Judgment Deferral Constraint" ;
rdfs:comment "Ethical and procedural constraint arising from an engineer intern or unlicensed subordinate's lack of qualification to independently assess the materiality, urgency, or systemic significance of discovered information — requiring that the subordinate defer all potentially material information upward to the supervising licensed professional engineer rather than exercising independent judgment about what to include or omit from reports, prohibiting the intern from filtering, prioritizing, or withholding information on the basis of their own unqualified assessment of its relevance or importance." ;
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Ontology
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Class
Content Hash
3a34a20ae3d64eca...Last Updated
2026-03-12 16:49
Extraction Provenance
Discovered in Case
57
Discovered In Pass
2
Discovered In Section
facts
First Discovered At
2026-02-25T21:22:32.362929+00:00
First Discovered In Case
57
Generated
2026-02-25T21:22:32.362929+00:00
Was Attributed To
Case 57 Extraction