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Attrition-as-Resolution

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Quick takeaways

An anti-pattern where drop-off is counted as success and metrics improve when people give up.

Definition

An anti-pattern where drop-off is counted as success and metrics improve when people give up. Attrition-as-resolution hides unmet obligations behind completion dashboards.

It often co-occurs with endurance asymmetry and extraction by endurance, shifting repair cost onto those with the least capacity.

BurdenStructural
Scope
H. Governance & power. Structures that determine who sets moral boundaries and who can intervene.
Genealogy
Ethotechnics uses Attrition-as-Resolution to extend the h. governance & power vocabulary and connect governance, design, and policy teams.

Adjacent terms

Endurance Asymmetry Extraction by Endurance Unearned Closure

Related concepts

Also tagged: Burden

Finitude Cognitive Saturation Point Compassion Bandwidth Administrative Shame Virtue as Access Control Affect-Invariance

Also tagged: Structural

Ethotechnics Moral Behavior (of Systems) Ethical Load Path Ethotechnic Audit Conviviality Ethotechnic Maturity

Example corpus

  • A benefits workflow reports higher “closure” rates after adding extra verification loops that cause applicants to abandon appeals.

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v1.1.0

Last updated

Jan 9, 2026

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APA

Ethotechnics Institute Research Team. (2026). Attrition-as-Resolution. Ethotechnics glossary. https://ethotechnics.org/glossary/attrition-as-resolution

MLA

Ethotechnics Institute Research Team. "Attrition-as-Resolution." Ethotechnics glossary, 2026, https://ethotechnics.org/glossary/attrition-as-resolution.

Chicago

Ethotechnics Institute Research Team. "Attrition-as-Resolution." Ethotechnics glossary. Jan 9, 2026. https://ethotechnics.org/glossary/attrition-as-resolution.

BibTeX

@misc{glossary_attrition-as-resolution,
  title={Attrition-as-Resolution},
  author={Ethotechnics Institute Research Team},
  year={2026},
  howpublished={Ethotechnics glossary},
  url={https://ethotechnics.org/glossary/attrition-as-resolution},
  version={v1.1.0}
}

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Contact: research@ethotechnics.org

Publication details

  • Published: Dec 3, 2025
  • Last updated: Jan 9, 2026
  • Version: v1.1.0
  • DOI: Pending Zenodo deposit

License: CC BY-SA 4.0

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Changelog

  • v1.1.0 · 2026-01-09 — Expanded scholarly metadata, operational tests, and provenance notes.
  • v1.0.0 · 2025-12-03 — Initial glossary release with stable permalinks.