{
  "handle": "MotivatedInstrumentTuning",
  "ref": "MotivatedInstrumentTuning#ed8f",
  "stub": "ed8f",
  "semaId": "sema:MotivatedInstrumentTuning#mh:SHA-256:ed8f6b395512ded44b703cda205982bbb2b6c65e010fc835ea41cebedd7466fb",
  "layer": "Infrastructure",
  "category": "Verification",
  "gloss": "Investigators who need a result tune their instruments toward it, often without intent",
  "mechanism": "When identity, career, or brand depends on a claim, the person adjusts instrument settings, exclusions, and reporting toward confirming it, usually subconsciously. The same applies to a model whose context holds a belief: it finds support for what it already holds. Unreported tuning choices make the resulting evidence unreliable.",
  "invariants": [
    "Bias arises from incentives and identity, not necessarily bad faith",
    "Instrument settings are part of the result and must be reported"
  ],
  "failureModes": [
    "Literature dominated by confirming findings",
    "Unreproducible results from unreported settings"
  ],
  "ring": 1,
  "tier": 2,
  "aliases": {},
  "buildsOn": [],
  "usedBy": [
    {
      "handle": "ContextConfirmationBias",
      "type": "references",
      "alias": "tuning",
      "url": "/knowledge-graph/ContextConfirmationBias/",
      "json": "/knowledge-graph/ContextConfirmationBias.json"
    },
    {
      "handle": "LocalSpatialStateDivergence",
      "type": "references",
      "alias": "instrument_tuning",
      "url": "/knowledge-graph/LocalSpatialStateDivergence/",
      "json": "/knowledge-graph/LocalSpatialStateDivergence.json"
    }
  ],
  "sources": {
    "research": [],
    "works": [],
    "homePage": false
  },
  "url": "/knowledge-graph/MotivatedInstrumentTuning/",
  "graphUrl": "/knowledge-graph#MotivatedInstrumentTuning",
  "directory": "/knowledge-graph/patterns.json"
}