{
  "registry_version": "2026.08.2",
  "data": {
    "title": "Communication or Working Style Friction",
    "status": "active",
    "evidence_ids": [
      "EVD-006"
    ],
    "content": "# Communication or Working Style Friction\n\nCandidate demonstrated abrasive tone, defensive reactions to critique, or inability to listen during collaborative interview problem solving.\n\n### Structural Context\n- **Actor:** `candidate`\n- **Nature:** `bias`\n- **Removability:** `candidate`\n\n### Non-Inferences\n- Style friction during high-stress interview is not a permanent personality defect.",
    "id": "M-015",
    "type": "mechanism",
    "summary": "Candidate demonstrated abrasive tone, defensive reactions to critique, or inability to listen during collaborative interview problem solving.",
    "operates_at": [
      "B-004",
      "B-008"
    ],
    "emissions": [
      {
        "artifact": "A-010",
        "fidelity": "direct",
        "likelihood": "high",
        "evidence": [
          "EVD-006"
        ]
      },
      {
        "artifact": "A-002",
        "fidelity": "euphemism",
        "likelihood": "high",
        "evidence": [
          "EVD-001"
        ]
      }
    ],
    "facets": {
      "actor": "candidate",
      "nature": "bias",
      "visibility": "observable",
      "removability": "candidate"
    },
    "amplifies": [],
    "masks": [],
    "evidence_level": "established",
    "honest_baseline": true,
    "specimens": [
      {
        "kind": "transcript",
        "label": "The exchange the note refers to",
        "context": "minute 33, pairing exercise",
        "lines": [
          {
            "speaker": "Interviewer",
            "at": "33:02",
            "text": "I think this loop is doing more work than it needs to.",
            "tell": false
          },
          {
            "speaker": "Candidate",
            "at": "33:06",
            "text": "It is fine. The input is bounded.",
            "tell": true
          },
          {
            "speaker": "Interviewer",
            "at": "33:11",
            "text": "Sure, but if it were not?",
            "tell": false
          },
          {
            "speaker": "Candidate",
            "at": "33:14",
            "text": "Then I would change it. But it is.",
            "tell": false
          }
        ],
        "reading": "The panel recorded this as resistance to critique. A short answer under time pressure and a defensive posture look identical in a transcript — which is why this belongs in the honest-baseline set and not in the excuses."
      }
    ],
    "non_inferences": [
      "Style friction during high-stress interview is not a permanent personality defect."
    ]
  }
}