Measurement tiers + anti-gaming guidance
Tiered measurement guidance for Moral Performance Indicators (MPIs) with anti-gaming controls.
Why tiers
Metrics without anti-gaming become weapons
Each MPI ships with tiered evidence, gaming patterns, and validator detection logic.
How to use
Apply tiers to every MPI
Start at Tier 0 for baseline proof and move up as governance maturity improves.
- Tier 0 proves instrumentation exists.
- Tier 1 proves the system is operated and reviewed.
- Tier 2 proves resilience under real incidents and audit sampling.
Tiered measurement model
- Tier 0: System logs showing halt trigger and halt completion timestamps.
- Tier 1: Drill reports with median and p95 halt times by team and system.
- Tier 2: Incident postmortems verifying real-world halt times under load.
Known gaming pattern
Halt tests run on low-traffic sandboxes instead of production paths.
Validator detection logic
Validator compares drill environment IDs against production system inventory.
Tiered measurement model
- Tier 0: Decision logs with reversal flags and rollbacks executed.
- Tier 1: Appeal outcomes segmented by decision type and reversal latency.
- Tier 2: Quarterly audits that test reversal paths on randomly sampled cases.
Known gaming pattern
Counting only low-stakes cases while excluding high-impact reversals.
Validator detection logic
Validator samples by impact tier and checks for missing high-severity cases.
Tiered measurement model
- Tier 0: Appeal intake records with outcomes and timestamps.
- Tier 1: Reviewer roster coverage and SLA compliance for appeals.
- Tier 2: External audit sampling of appeal outcomes for consistency.
Known gaming pattern
Redirecting appeals to off-platform channels so they are not counted.
Validator detection logic
Validator checks for mismatch between receipts issued and appeals recorded.
Tiered measurement model
- Tier 0: Journey maps with time cost logs for entry, exit, and appeal flows.
- Tier 1: Time-on-task analytics with segmentation by user cohort.
- Tier 2: Independent usability studies verifying time cost deltas.
Known gaming pattern
Measuring only successful flows while ignoring drop-offs or abandoned cases.
Validator detection logic
Validator requires abandonment rates and cross-checks with support tickets.