Cold-read test
A specific validation step in which someone unfamiliar with the dossier is handed a named claim and timed on how long it takes them to locate the primary evidence for it; a result under roughly two minutes indicates the dossier meets the outsider-verifiability standard, and a longer result points to a navigation or evidentiary weakness.
Defined in 2 GAGE programs, which carry 2 distinct definitions of it. The wording above is taught in AI Data Governance: The Data Chair.
How each discipline defines it
The same term does different work depending on who is using it. These are the definitions as each program teaches them, unedited.
A specific validation step in which someone unfamiliar with the dossier is handed a named claim and timed on how long it takes them to locate the primary evidence for it; a result under roughly two minutes indicates the dossier meets the outsider-verifiability standard, and a longer result points to a navigation or evidentiary weakness.
A verification in which a stranger, given the handover pack and a fixed time, must state what the organization runs, what is decided, what is open, and what to watch, without asking questions. It proves the pack was received and is navigable, not merely filed.
Where it is taught
The exact lessons this term appears in. The first 7 topics of every program are free with a free account.
- Assembling the dossier: every artifact, every decision, one evidence file · The Estate Audit, AI Data Governance: The Data Chair
- The handover: what you now know that no essay could have taught you, and where you take it · The Capstone: The Board Audit and Viva, AI Governance: Applied Mastery
Terms it appears with
Not an alphabetical neighbourhood: these are the terms taught in the same lessons, ranked by how often they appear together.