{
  "schema": "org-topic@v1",
  "contract": "https://mnstry.org/contracts/org/org-topic.v1.schema.json",
  "id": "org:courses:instruments-of-care",
  "topic": "Care",
  "framing": "Care is easy to declare and hard to instrument. These articles walk what\nhappens when a product that means well hands the question of whether it is\nworking to a number, and the number turns out to have been chosen, shaped, or\npointed in a direction nobody examined. The order runs from the sign of a\nmetric to the independence of a measure to the accuracy that flatters a\nsystem while describing a smaller life, then down to the parameter underneath\nand out to the person the whole apparatus was built to help.",
  "readingOrder": [
    {
      "id": "org:writing:success-looks-like-disuse",
      "title": "Success looks like disuse",
      "transition": "Start with the sign of the number, because a tool built to develop a person records its best outcome as a decline, and nothing further in this topic makes sense until that is on the page.",
      "url": "https://mnstry.org/writing/success-looks-like-disuse/",
      "json": "https://mnstry.org/writing/success-looks-like-disuse.json"
    },
    {
      "id": "org:writing:the-tautology-trap",
      "title": "The tautology trap",
      "transition": "If the direction of a metric can be wrong, so can its independence, and the next failure is an instrument validated against a paraphrase of itself.",
      "url": "https://mnstry.org/writing/the-tautology-trap/",
      "json": "https://mnstry.org/writing/the-tautology-trap.json"
    },
    {
      "id": "org:writing:what-accuracy-measures",
      "title": "What accuracy measures",
      "transition": "A circular measure at least reports something about wording; the harder case is a number that is genuinely accurate and still says more about the person's constraint than about the model.",
      "junction": {
        "brick": "org:writing:a-vector-of-your-words",
        "transition": "Or follow what else a system makes out of a person while it is measuring them, since the numerical shadow of somebody's words turns out to be a second copy of the words rather than an abstraction of them.",
        "targetCourse": "org:courses:privacy"
      },
      "url": "https://mnstry.org/writing/what-accuracy-measures/",
      "json": "https://mnstry.org/writing/what-accuracy-measures.json"
    },
    {
      "id": "org:writing:the-parameter-is-a-policy",
      "title": "The parameter is a policy",
      "transition": "Behind every one of those numbers sits a smaller one that nobody argued about, set once in a configuration file and binding on everyone the system touches.",
      "url": "https://mnstry.org/writing/the-parameter-is-a-policy/",
      "json": "https://mnstry.org/writing/the-parameter-is-a-policy.json"
    },
    {
      "id": "org:writing:the-expertise-reversal",
      "title": "The expertise reversal",
      "transition": "End where the measuring meets the person being helped, at the finding that identical guidance helps one of your users and costs the other at every moment, and that you cannot tell which without measuring them rather than the content.",
      "junction": {
        "brick": "org:writing:the-crutch-effect",
        "transition": "Or cross to the deskilling wall, where the same help is measured on a longer clock and the harm shows up only after the tool is taken away.",
        "targetCourse": "org:courses:deskilling"
      },
      "url": "https://mnstry.org/writing/the-expertise-reversal/",
      "json": "https://mnstry.org/writing/the-expertise-reversal.json"
    }
  ],
  "completion": "You have walked Instruments of care end to end: the metric whose good direction is down, the scale that agrees with itself, the accuracy that reads out a narrowed life, the parameter nobody voted on, and the guidance that crosses into interference. A tool that claims to care for its users is making claims that can be checked, and every one of them is a number somebody chose.",
  "practice": "Take one tool that claims to care for its users, including yours. Write three lines about it. What its graduation metric is, meaning what it records when someone no longer needs it. What question its evaluation begs, meaning where the thing being asked and the thing being proven are the same sentence. And which parameter somebody chose once, on behalf of everyone, without writing down who paid for it. If none of the three exists, you have not failed the exercise. You have measured the tool.",
  "graph": "https://mnstry.org/kg.json"
}