Observable text expressions
CBL measures observable text expressions, behavioral primitives, and aggregate behavioral patterns.
Ethical & Methodological Boundaries
CBL characterizes properties of text expressions. It does not assign behavioral scores to people.
This framework specifies what CBL measures, what it does not measure, what it does not do, and what safeguards govern research and validation practice.
Not hidden psychology
CBL does not measure internal mental states, hidden intentions, future behavior, or personal worth.
Not governance by score
It does not support social scoring, predictive policing, surveillance, automated adjudication, or individual risk scoring.
Conservative and documented
Anonymization, PII removal, conservative extraction, not observable defaults, inter-rater validation, preregistration, and honest failure reporting are part of the framework.
Anonymization principle
Personally identifiable information is not required for behavioral primitive extraction and should be removed whenever possible before analysis.
Identity boundary
CBL is designed to operate on behavioral expressions rather than personal identities. It characterizes properties of text expressions rather than assigning behavioral scores to people.
Ethical and methodological boundaries are part of the framework itself, not an afterthought added after deployment.