The question · The changing answer · Element

The prior

What the decision-maker currently believes.

The part

What it is

Recorded before the analysis, since it is otherwise reconstructed afterwards in a way that makes the finding unsurprising.

A large gap between the prior and the finding is worth flagging, since it predicts resistance.

The smallest level

The attributes it carries

Each attribute is one of the framework’s shared types. What a date is, and how it is written, is defined once for the whole model — the note here says what it means in this particular place.