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DISC becomes less useful when familiar words acquire hidden meanings. This glossary explains how 702it uses behavioral, assessment, and Business Operating System terms. Definitions describe tendencies and systems; they do not diagnose or rank people.
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Featured distinctions
Preference is not capability
A preference is an approach a person tends to favor. Capability is demonstrated knowledge, skill, experience, and judgment. A DISC score may inform support; it does not prove that someone can or cannot perform a responsibility.
Reliability is not validity
Reliability concerns consistency or precision. Validity concerns whether evidence supports the intended interpretation and use. A test can produce consistent scores while consistently measuring the wrong thing.
Accountability is not task assignment
Many people or systems may perform tasks. The accountable owner ensures that the outcome is handled and that gaps are escalated or corrected.
Backup is not recovery
A backup is a stored copy. Recovery is the proven ability to restore the correct data and usable operation within the business need.
Trust is not control
Trust is relational confidence. Control makes ownership, access, authority, change, and recovery explicit and verifiable.
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702it BOS
The 702it Business Operating System: seven connected business systems—Communication, Information, Security, Operations, Continuity, Control, and Intelligence—used to make outcomes, ownership, resources, evidence, and improvement visible.
A
Acceptance criteria
Observable conditions that must be true before work, a handoff, a release, or a result is accepted as complete. Good acceptance criteria name the standard without prescribing unnecessary method.
Access control
Rules and mechanisms that allow approved people or systems to reach a resource while preventing or recording unauthorized access. Access control includes identity, authentication, authorization, review, revocation, and evidence.
Accessibility
The quality of making content and interaction usable by people with varied visual, auditory, motor, cognitive, speech, language, and technological needs. Accessibility is an ongoing design, testing, support, and correction responsibility—not a plugin or badge.
Accountability
The obligation to ensure a defined outcome or responsibility is handled, evidenced, and corrected when it is not. Tasks may be delegated; accountability changes only through an explicit transfer.
Accountable owner
The one person answerable for ensuring a business outcome or system responsibility is handled. The accountable owner may delegate tasks but does not delegate accountability without an explicit transfer.
Acknowledgment
Evidence that a message, handoff, request, or alert reached the intended receiver. Acknowledgment confirms receipt, not necessarily understanding, agreement, or completion.
Acquiescence
A response tendency to endorse statements broadly regardless of their specific content. It can raise several scores at once and should not be treated as deception from one indicator.
Adaptation
A deliberate change in pace, tone, detail, structure, or interaction to meet the needs of a situation or another person. Adaptation is a skill; it does not mean pretending to become a different personality.
Administration
The instructions, presentation, environment, access method, timing, support, and data-handling conditions under which an assessment is completed. Changing administration can change what responses mean.
Administrative access
Privileged access used by approved 702it personnel or providers to operate, support, secure, correct, or study the service. It requires named roles, least privilege, logging, review, and removal when no longer needed.
Aggregate data
Information summarized across multiple records, such as a count or average. Aggregate does not automatically mean anonymous; small cells or combined details may still expose a person or business.
Alternate owner
A named person authorized and prepared to assume an accountable responsibility when the primary owner is unavailable. An alternate needs current access, information, authority, and a tested activation rule.
Alternative-direction item
A neutrally worded statement describing a plausible approach expected to relate inversely to a target dimension. It is not grammatical negation and cannot be assumed to represent low expression until evidence supports the scoring direction.
Anchor item
A candidate presented across multiple pilot forms so responses can help connect the forms to a common measurement structure. An anchor is not automatically a proven or permanent item.
Anonymous data
Information that cannot reasonably be linked to an identifiable person under the stated method and context. 702it should not use this label merely because a name was omitted or replaced with an ID.
Assertiveness
The tendency to state a view, request, boundary, or decision directly. Assertiveness is not the same as aggression.
Assessment
A structured method for collecting responses and interpreting them under defined rules. A CheckYourDISC result is a behavioral self-report, not a clinical diagnosis or ability test.
Authoritative record
The designated source the business treats as current and controlling when duplicate, informal, or older information disagrees.
Authority
The legitimate ability to make a decision, approve an exception, commit resources, or access what a responsibility requires. Accountability without matching authority creates an operating gap.
Automation
Technology that performs or coordinates a defined action with limited manual effort. Automation still needs an owner, input and exception rules, monitoring, security, and a recovery path.
B
Backup
A protected copy of data or configuration intended to support restoration after loss or damage. A successful backup does not prove that the full business operation can be recovered.
Balanced pattern
A result route in which all four dimension scores are relatively close under the current scoring rule. It does not mean perfect flexibility, equal skill, or absence of meaningful preferences.
Behavioral flexibility
The practiced ability to use a behavior that a situation requires even when it is not one's first preference. Flexibility is not measured merely by having close DISC scores.
Behavioral preference
A way of approaching situations that tends to feel natural or efficient for a person. A preference is not an inability to act differently.
Behavioral style
A summary of recurring, observable approaches to pace, people, problems, rules, decisions, and work. It is narrower than a complete personality.
Blend
A result pattern in which two or more DISC dimensions are meaningfully expressed. Blends describe score relationships, not separate species of people.
Blind spot
An effect or risk a person may fail to notice because attention is naturally directed elsewhere. In reports, prefer “possible overextension” when “blind spot” sounds overly certain.
BOS
Short form for the 702it Business Operating System. On this site, BOS refers to the seven-system operating framework, not a personality category or software product by itself.
Bottleneck
A person, decision, dependency, resource, or process step that limits the rate or reliability of an outcome. A visible bottleneck may be a symptom of missing authority, capacity, information, or design.
C
Calibration
The process of estimating and checking scoring relationships, item behavior, thresholds, or model parameters for a specified assessment form and population. Calibration does not make a result universally valid.
Capability
Demonstrated knowledge, skill, experience, and judgment required to perform work. DISC does not measure capability.
Capacity
The available time, attention, energy, and workload room to take responsibility. A capable person without capacity is not the right current resource.
Careless-response indicator
An observable pattern—such as implausibly fast completion, extreme invariance, or contradictory responding—that may warrant sensitivity analysis or review. One indicator is not proof that a participant was careless or dishonest.
Change adoption
The process by which affected people understand, try, accept, and reliably use a changed practice. Adoption depends on consequence, trust, capability, capacity, support, and feedback—not only communication style.
Channel
The medium used to carry a message, such as a conversation, ticket, text, email, dashboard, or alert. Channel choice should match urgency, sensitivity, required evidence, accessibility, and expected response.
Checklist
A concise list of required checks or actions used to reduce omission in repeatable work. A checklist supports judgment; it does not replace ownership, competence, exception handling, or outcome review.
Circumplex
A model that arranges constructs around a circle with an expected order of relationships, such as neighboring dimensions being more related than distant ones. Drawing a wheel does not establish a circumplex.
Cognitive interview
A structured interview used to learn how participants understand a question, retrieve information, form a judgment, and choose a response. It tests question meaning and process, not the participant's personality.
Common-method variance
Shared response variation created by using the same respondent, format, occasion, wording style, or measurement method rather than by the intended constructs alone. It can inflate apparent relationships among self-report scales.
Communication
The BOS system that gets the right message to the right person, in the right form and time, with confirmation when needed.
Comprehensibility
The extent to which intended participants understand instructions, items, response choices, and report language as intended.
Comprehensiveness
The extent to which an assessment includes the important parts of its defined construct instead of omitting difficult or less obvious content.
Confirmation
Evidence that a receiver understood, accepted, or completed the requested action under a stated standard. Confirmation is stronger than delivery or acknowledgment and should name what is being confirmed.
Conscientiousness (C)
The DISC dimension associated with verifying outcomes through analysis, evidence, precision, structure, standards, skepticism, and controlled risk. It should not be confused with the broader Big Five trait of the same name.
Construct
The abstract characteristic an assessment intends to measure. Clear construct definitions are necessary before questions can be judged as relevant.
Construct contamination
The presence of irrelevant content that causes an item or score to reflect ability, authority, opportunity, desirability, another trait, or some other influence outside the intended construct.
Construct validity
Evidence that an assessment's scores support the intended interpretation of the construct rather than primarily measuring something else.
Content validity
Evidence that an assessment adequately represents the important parts of the construct and avoids irrelevant content.
Context
The situation, role, relationship, culture, stakes, and environment in which behavior occurs. DISC tendencies may appear differently across contexts.
Continuity
The BOS system that keeps critical outcomes available through absence, failure, disruption, growth, and change.
Control
The BOS system that makes ownership, authority, access, standards, exceptions, and accountability explicit.
Convergent evidence
Evidence that scores relate in expected ways to other measures of similar or theoretically connected constructs. A strong correlation is useful only when the relationship was conceptually expected and the comparison measure is suitable.
Correction notice
A dated, visible explanation of a factual, calculation, citation, accessibility, policy, or interpretation error; the corrected information; who or what was affected; and what changed. Corrections preserve history rather than silently rewriting it.
Counterbalance
A study design technique that varies order or presentation systematically so sequence effects can be estimated or distributed. Counterbalancing must be planned; casual randomization is not automatically equivalent.
Criterion evidence
Evidence about how assessment scores relate to a relevant external outcome. It must match the intended use; general popularity is not criterion validity.
Culture
Shared and contested expectations, meanings, practices, and power relationships that shape how behavior is expressed and interpreted. Culture should not be reduced to nationality or used as an after-the-fact stereotype.
Customer outcome
An observable condition or result that creates or protects value for a customer. It is more specific than an activity such as “provide support” and should include an acceptable standard and consequence.
D
Data retention
The rules governing how long collected information is kept, why it is kept, how it is protected, and when it is deleted or de-identified.
De-identified data
Information processed to reduce or remove linkage to an individual under a defined method and risk standard. Removing a name alone may not make a detailed behavioral record de-identified.
Decision owner
The person authorized and accountable for ensuring a particular decision is made, recorded, communicated, and revisited when its assumptions or conditions change.
Decision record
An authoritative entry stating what was decided, by whom, when, under which evidence and constraints, with any review date or exception. It prevents the decision from disappearing into conversation.
Decision rights
Rules defining which person or role may make which decision, within what boundary, and when escalation or additional approval is required.
Decision rule
A predeclared rule connecting evidence or conditions to an action, escalation, hold, or review. A decision rule makes judgment inspectable without pretending every case is identical.
Decision threshold
The predeclared level of evidence, risk, authority, or time at which a decision is made, escalated, or stopped. A threshold should match consequence and reversibility.
Decisiveness
The tendency to choose a direction and accept closure when action is required, including when information is incomplete.
Definition of done
A shared description of the observable state that means work is complete and acceptable. It should identify evidence, receiver or approver, and any material exception rather than merely state that effort occurred.
Delegation
The deliberate transfer of defined work or decision authority while preserving clarity about outcome, boundaries, support, escalation, and accountability. Delegation is not abandonment or a vague request to “handle it.”
Differential item functioning (DIF)
Evidence that people from different groups with the same estimated standing on the intended construct have different probabilities of selecting an item response. Statistical DIF requires substantive review; it is not automatically bias or harmless.
Dimension
One continuous measured tendency. In this assessment, D, I, S, and C are dimensions rather than mutually exclusive boxes.
Direct item
An item worded so higher raw endorsement is provisionally expected to correspond to higher expression of its assigned dimension. “Direct” describes scoring direction, not clarity or truth.
DISC
A behavioral framework commonly organized around Dominance, Influence, Steadiness, and Conscientiousness. Different DISC instruments use different questions, scoring methods, evidence, and terminology.
Discriminant evidence
Evidence that scores are not merely measuring a different construct from which they should be meaningfully distinct. It concerns the predicted pattern of relationships, not a demand for zero correlation.
Display score
A participant-facing transformation of an internal score. In the beta plan, a 0–4 mean may be converted to 0–100 for readability; that number is not a percentile, grade, or percent accuracy.
DNS
Domain Name System, the distributed service that connects domain names to technical records such as website and email destinations. Reliable DNS needs controlled change, security, monitoring, and recovery.
Domain
In internet operations, a registered name used for website, email, and service identity. A domain is a business asset that needs accountable ownership, renewal, DNS control, security, and continuity planning.
Dominance (D)
The DISC dimension associated with influencing outcomes through assertive action, challenge, autonomy, directness, urgency, and result focus.
E
Evidence
Information used to support, question, or revise a claim or decision. Useful evidence is relevant to the exact claim, version, population, context, and consequence; volume alone is not quality.
Evidence seeking
The tendency to ask what information supports a claim, distinguish facts from assumptions, and verify important conclusions.
Evidence status
A controlled label—such as not yet studied, preliminary, mixed, supported for a named use, not supported, or retired—that states what the current version-specific evidence permits.
Exception
An approved departure from a normal rule or process with a reason, scope, owner, consequence, evidence, and expiration or review point. An undocumented workaround is not a governed exception.
Exercise
A bounded activity used to practice or apply a concept. A teaching exercise can generate hypotheses and action, but completion is not proof of assessment validity or business improvement.
Experimental item
An assessment statement presented for research but excluded from the participant's current score. Experimental responses help evaluate possible future improvements.
F
Facet
A narrower component of a broader dimension. For example, decisiveness and autonomy are proposed facets within D.
Factor
A statistical latent variable proposed to account for shared response patterns among items. A factor can inform construct structure but does not define meaning without theory and item content.
Factor loading
An estimated relationship between an item and a statistical factor under a particular model. A high loading does not by itself prove the item is clear, fair, unique, or correctly interpreted.
Fairness
The goal of providing equitable access to the construct and examining whether irrelevant group-related factors distort score interpretation or use.
Feedback
Information returned about an action, output, or effect so a person or system can adjust. Useful feedback is timely, specific, connected to an observable standard, and routed to someone able to act.
Forced choice
A response format requiring a person to choose between statements, often “most like me” and “least like me.” Some scoring approaches create ipsative results and require special care.
Form version
The exact set of item wording, response labels, administration instructions, and presentation rules used in an assessment. A response remains attached to its original form version.
H
Handoff
The transfer of work, information, responsibility, or control from one person or system to another. A reliable handoff defines the transfer condition, receiver, acceptance, and exception path.
Heroics
Repeated reliance on extraordinary personal effort, memory, availability, or improvisation to keep an ordinary outcome working. Heroics may hide missing capacity, process, automation, authority, or backup.
High-stakes use
Use of a score or report in a decision with material consequences, such as hiring, promotion, discipline, access, insurance, diagnosis, or eligibility. Developmental evidence and consent do not automatically support high-stakes use.
Hypothesis
A specific, testable explanation or expectation that may be supported, revised, or rejected by evidence. A report statement framed as a hypothesis invites verification; it is not a disguised fact.
I
Influence (I)
The DISC dimension associated with influencing outcomes through social engagement, verbal expression, enthusiasm, persuasion, visibility, and relationship activation.
Information
The BOS system that captures, organizes, protects, retrieves, and maintains the knowledge a business needs.
Intelligence
In the 702it BOS, the system that turns reliable signals into understanding, decisions, learning, and improved action. It is not a person's IQ score.
Internal consistency
Evidence about whether items intended to measure the same construct produce related responses. High consistency can be misleading if items are merely redundant.
Invariance
Evidence about whether a measurement model functions equivalently enough across groups, occasions, or modes for a proposed comparison. Passing one statistical convention is not proof that every comparison is fair or meaningful.
Ipsative score
A score expressing the relative strength of tendencies within one person, often created by traditional forced-choice formats. Ipsative scores can complicate comparisons between people.
Item
One statement, question, or task in an assessment.
Item pool
A large collection of candidate items from which a final assessment is selected after review and testing.
Item version
The exact wording and presentation identity of an item at a point in time. A wording change creates a new version even when the conceptual item key remains stable.
J
Job analysis
A systematic study of a role's tasks, outcomes, conditions, required capabilities, and relevant worker characteristics. A job title or DISC profile is not a substitute for job analysis.
K
Key-person dependency
A condition in which a critical outcome, decision, credential, relationship, or piece of knowledge depends on one person whose absence would stop or seriously weaken the business.
L
Least privilege
The security principle of giving a person or system only the access needed for an approved purpose and duration. Privilege should be reviewed, logged where appropriate, and removed promptly when the need ends.
Local dependence
Residual relationship between items beyond what the measurement model is intended to explain, often caused by duplicated wording, shared scenarios, or one item cueing another. It can inflate apparent precision.
Low expression
A relatively lower score on a DISC dimension. It describes less preference or emphasis in the assessment context, not a deficiency or inability.
M
Measure
A defined method or instrument used to represent an attribute, condition, behavior, or outcome. A measure must identify what is captured, how, with what uncertainty, and for which use.
Measurement error
Variation in a score caused by imperfect questions, temporary conditions, response interpretation, sampling, or other influences. No behavioral score is perfectly precise.
Metric
A specified quantitative indicator used to monitor a condition or outcome. A metric becomes useful only when its definition, source, owner, review cadence, decision rule, and limits are clear.
Missing data
An expected response or field that is absent. Missing data should retain its reason when known and must not be silently replaced with a midpoint or preferred answer.
Model fit
Evidence about how well a statistical model reproduces relevant patterns in the observed data under its assumptions. Good fit does not prove that the model is uniquely correct or substantively meaningful.
Monitoring
Ongoing observation of a system, measure, risk, or outcome so meaningful change or failure can trigger action. Monitoring needs thresholds, ownership, routing, and response—not merely a dashboard.
Motivation
Conditions or outcomes that tend to energize effort. DISC may suggest preferences but does not fully measure motives, values, or commitment.
Multi-form design
A study design in which participants receive different linked sets of items. Common anchors and planned rotating modules allow a broad candidate pool to be evaluated without asking every person every question.
N
Norm
A documented comparison group used to interpret a score. Norms should identify who was included, when data was collected, and which assessment version was used.
Norm group
The specific people whose scores provide a reference distribution. A useful norm group must fit the intended comparison and identify its population, recruitment, date, size, weighting, and assessment version.
O
Observable behavior
An action or response that can be described in context without inferring an unseen trait, motive, ability, or moral quality. Observation still depends on opportunity, role, channel, and the observer's perspective.
Observer rating
A report by another person about behavior they have had an opportunity to observe. Observer ratings add a perspective; they are not automatically more objective or a replacement for self-report.
Omega
A family of model-based reliability estimates that can be more appropriate than coefficient alpha under many conditions. Omega still depends on model and data assumptions and does not establish validity.
Operations
The BOS system that produces repeatable work and customer outcomes through visible ownership, handoffs, standards, and improvement.
Outcome
The observable result or condition the work must create or protect. A useful outcome identifies what must be true, for whom, at what standard, and with what consequence if it fails.
Overextension
A useful behavioral tendency applied too intensely, too often, or in the wrong situation. An overextension is not an inevitable weakness.
Owner
The person answerable for ensuring a defined outcome, decision, resource, or system responsibility is handled. “Owner” should name one accountable role rather than everyone who participates.
Owner dependency
A form of key-person dependency in which ordinary decisions, relationships, knowledge, approvals, or recovery depend on the business owner. The remedy may involve authority, documentation, process, systems, or an alternate owner.
P
Pace
The speed at which a person tends to decide, communicate, transition, and act. Preferred pace can change with context and familiarity.
Percentile
The percentage of a defined norm group scoring at or below a given score. A percentile is not percent correct and is meaningless without a relevant norm group.
Polychoric correlation
An estimate of association used for ordered response categories under assumptions about underlying continuous variables. It can support ordinal item analysis but is not a direct observed correlation and can be unstable with sparse categories.
Precision
The degree of consistency or uncertainty in a measurement. Precision does not, by itself, prove that the correct construct is being measured.
Preference
An approach a person tends to favor. Preference should never be interpreted as fixed capacity.
Preregistration
A time-stamped record of research questions, design, exclusions, outcomes, and analysis decisions created before the relevant results are examined. It improves transparency but does not guarantee a good study.
Primary style
The dimension or pattern most strongly expressed when score differences are sufficiently meaningful. Close scores should be described as a blend rather than forced into a winner.
Private result link
A hard-to-guess link that may grant access to a report without a separate login. It should be treated as a credential, protected from indexing and leakage, and revocable or recoverable under the actual security design.
Pseudonymous data
Information linked through a code or internal reference rather than a direct identifier. It remains linkable and should not be described as anonymous merely because the name is stored elsewhere.
Q
Quality flag
A neutral indicator that a result or record needs careful interpretation because of missingness, response pattern, timing, version, delivery, or another defined condition. It is not a verdict about honesty or personal quality.
R
Raw response
The participant's original selected option before keyed direction, averaging, conversion, classification, or report routing. Historical raw responses must never be silently rewritten.
Recovery
The proven ability to restore usable data, systems, access, roles, and business operation within the required conditions and time. Recovery includes more than possessing a backup.
Recovery time
The elapsed time between a disruption and restoration of an agreed usable outcome. A recovery-time target must name the service, starting event, restored condition, and evidence.
Reference frame
The situation, people, role, and time period a participant uses while answering. Two people can read the same item differently if one imagines a crisis and the other imagines routine work.
Reliability
Evidence about score consistency or precision under specified conditions. Reliability is necessary but not sufficient for valid interpretation.
Report version
The documented content rules, modules, explanations, caveats, and presentation logic used to create a report. Historical reports retain their original report version.
Residual risk
The risk that remains after controls or safeguards are applied. It should have an authorized owner who can accept, reduce, transfer, avoid, or revisit it.
Resource
Anything required to produce a business outcome: people, capability, capacity, process, technology/tools/equipment/facilities, information, authority, vendor support, budget, or redundancy.
Resource placement
The practice of matching a defined outcome with accountable ownership and the people, capability, capacity, systems, authority, and support required to deliver it reliably.
Response bias
A systematic influence on answers unrelated to the intended construct, such as choosing socially desirable responses or repeatedly agreeing regardless of content.
Response option
One labeled choice available for answering an item. Response options define the judgment being requested and should be fully visible, distinct, ordered when intended, and accessible.
Response process
The way a participant comprehends a statement, retrieves relevant information, forms a judgment, and maps it to an available response. Validity evidence includes whether this process matches the intended interpretation.
Result confidence
A plain-language summary of how much confidence the current response pattern and available evidence permit. It must not imply certainty the assessment has not earned.
Reversible decision
A choice that can be changed with limited cost or harm after new evidence appears. Reversibility can justify a lighter evidence threshold, but it does not eliminate ownership or monitoring.
Review point
A preplanned time or condition at which an owner compares current evidence with the decision, exception, risk, or outcome and decides whether to continue, change, escalate, or stop.
S
Score distance
The numerical difference between two dimension scores within one result. In the beta routing plan, distance helps choose report copy; it is not a proven natural boundary between personality types.
Score version
The documented set of rules used to transform item responses into results. Historical results must retain their original score version.
Security
The BOS system that protects people, identities, money, devices, systems, and information while enabling legitimate work.
Self-descriptiveness scale
A response scale asking how strongly a statement describes the participant, such as Not at all like me through Very much like me. It is not the same as frequency or agreement, even when people use those ideas while answering.
Self-report
Information a person provides about themselves. Self-report offers valuable access to typical preferences but can be affected by self-awareness, context, memory, and presentation goals.
Signal
An observation or indicator that may warrant attention or further evidence. A signal is not automatically a cause, diagnosis, trend, or decision.
Situational flexibility
The ability to select behavior suited to the current need rather than rely only on one's first preference.
Social desirability
The tendency to answer in a way believed to look admirable or acceptable. Item wording and administration should reduce obvious “good” answers.
Standard
An agreed requirement or level of acceptable performance, quality, security, or evidence. A standard needs a scope, owner, verification method, and exception process.
Standard error of measurement
An estimate of score uncertainty under specified assumptions. It can help describe precision but should not be treated as a universal error margin across all people, scores, forms, or uses.
Steadiness (S)
The DISC dimension associated with supporting stable outcomes through patience, cooperation, predictability, listening, dependable pace, and relational continuity.
Stereotype
A generalized assumption applied to a person or group without sufficient individual and contextual evidence. DISC labels become stereotypes when they are treated as ability, destiny, virtue, or job fit.
Style label
A short name summarizing a score pattern. It is a navigation aid for interpretation, not the complete result.
Support
A resource that helps a person or system produce an outcome reliably, such as information, authority, time, process, technology, feedback, training, another person, or a specialist provider.
Support design
The deliberate arrangement of resources, controls, cues, tools, handoffs, authority, and feedback around an outcome. It aims to make reliable performance less dependent on one person's preferred style or heroic effort.
System of record
The designated system where authoritative information is created or maintained. A system of record needs ownership, access, freshness, and recovery—not merely a product name.
T
Team contribution
A behavior, capability, perspective, or resource that helps a group produce an outcome. A contribution is not a permanent role assignment or proof that a team needs one person of each DISC style.
Test–retest reliability
Evidence about score stability when the same people complete an assessment again after an appropriate interval and the construct is expected to remain reasonably stable.
Tested recovery
Recovery that has been exercised under defined conditions and shown to restore the required data, access, roles, and operation within an acceptable result. A test should record defects and corrective actions.
Threshold
A defined value or condition that triggers an action, review, escalation, or classification. A threshold should be justified, versioned, monitored near its boundary, and matched to consequence.
Trait
A relatively enduring pattern of individual differences. The 702it assessment uses behavioral-preference language to avoid overstating permanence or completeness.
Trust
Confidence that a person, process, or system will act as expected under relevant conditions. Trust can coexist with verification and does not replace access control, evidence, or recovery.
U
Uncertainty
The degree to which the available information, measurement, model, or future outcome remains unclear. Good decisions name material uncertainty rather than converting it into false precision.
Use case
The specific interpretation, decision, population, setting, and consequence for which an assessment is applied. Evidence for one use case does not automatically support another.
V
Validity
The degree to which evidence and theory support a particular interpretation and use of assessment scores. A test is not simply “valid” for every purpose.
Versioning
Preserving the exact item wording, scoring, report rules, consent, and norms used for each result so historical data remains interpretable.
W
Withdrawal
A participant's request to stop future research participation or remove information where the study terms and applicable law allow. The consent process must explain timing, limits after analysis or publication, and any lawful retention exceptions.
Workload
The amount, timing, complexity, interruption, and consequence of work competing for available capacity. Workload is not visible from a DISC score and should be measured directly enough for the decision.