New subclass of Event: Determination

[uscholdm]

There are many examples of events whose central purpose is to determine some kind of result, value or outcome. Determinations will always have:

1. Method what was done to make the determination - (e.g. manual process, algorithm)
2. Result: usually a value or a category or some sort
3. Performer: of the determination (a person, a program/application)
4. Date performed (inherited from Event)

The most common examples in my experience are:

• Measurement
  • the sulphur content of Brent crude
  • blood pressure
• Evaluation - based on quality.
  • loan approval (from FIBO)
  • how good of a modeler is an interviewee?
• Assessment [quality-neutral]
  • What will the price of Brent crude be next month?
• Classification: what category does something belong in?
  • is a person short, medium height or tall?

There is a a bit of overlap here.

• Sometimes categories will be in some kind of notional order, which makes it more like (e.g. bad, neutral, good).
• the word Assessment often is used in the context of quality.

[uscholdm]

@rjyounes I'd like for this to be addressed by the group.

[rjyounes]

Added to 12.1.0 project for review.

[rjyounes]

Rebecca: Also includes an approval decision - I.e., the act of approving.

Mark: How about Assessment?

Michael: Measuring blood pressure is not assessment.

Doug: Two separate things: gathering facts vs. interpreting them.

Rebecca: The class can encompass both.

Mark: Do concepts other than measurements and assessments fall in here? If not, then maybe we just want these without the intermediate class Determination.

Mark: Should be subclasses of HistoricalEvent.

Dylan: "Determination" could also mean making something the case - e.g., the chemical makeup of food determines its taste.

Rebecca: Seems like the ambiguity lies more in the verb than the noun.

DECISION: Define Determination as subclass of HistoricalEvent. Indicate that it could be either qualitative or quantitative, encompasses all the types of determinations above. Add a note to clarify that it doesn't mean making something the case (à la Dylan's comment).