# Social information as evidence and as contamination

ID: social-evidence-exposure
Canonical: https://rezonansapp.com/nodes/social-evidence-exposure
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Epistemic kind: reconstruction

## Question

When should a reader or model see existing votes and reputations while forming an interpretation?

## Formulation

Social assessments may help resolve uncertainty but may also contaminate an ostensibly independent judgment. The proposal does not settle on universal blindness; it asks how exposure should depend on context and be recorded.

## Tension

Independence and informed judgment can conflict; model capability alone does not establish a reliable exposure policy.

## Challenge

Which conclusion changed after exposure, and was the change supported by new reasons or only by a score?