Disposition
Decision-maker posture — promotion, prevention, and appetite mistaken for tier
Disposition is the posture of the processor — person, panel, or room — toward uncertain evidence at the moment of read or bind. The claims on the slide did not change; what changed is how the judge assigns tier, urgency, and weight. Disposition is signal about the reader, not about the claim.
The central axis is promotion versus prevention:
Neither is noise to average away. Honest systems make disposition visible — especially at the commitment boundary — rather than pretend the room is neutral.
Disposition is closely related to processor fidelity, the sixth trust facet: fidelity names how much distortion the judge introduces; disposition names what kind of posture drives it (confirmation bias, anchoring, unsafe dissent, portfolio appetite). Low fidelity discounts effective trust regardless of artifact L–U coordinates.
Organisational dress: the Innovation Divide — innovators, pragmatists, and laggards assign different tiers to the same evidence because risk postures differ, not because epistemic warrant changed.
A3 — exploratory Starter taxonomy only; see Disposition and Processor Fidelity for the indexed failure-mode map and composition hook in The Facets Composed.