trust on a continuum.

[andorsk]

Trust is not normally a binary decision. Trust is better modeled as part of a continuum, in which some presentations are "more" trustworthy than others. My question is the following:

• What support around "levels" of trust should the TE specs provide? Is this within scope for the TE specs?
• If in scope and not sufficient: How would we enable the specifications to support better trust decisions which allow for a trust within a continuum. I think this relates to is the "context" of a trust decision being captured sufficiently? #43 as you may trust someone more or less based upon context.

Here's a toy example which we can play with:

Bob telling Alice's food preferences may be less trustworthy than John telling Alice's food preferences. But if Bob and Tom both say the same thing about Alice's food preferences, maybe they are more trust worthy in aggregate than John, if they agree. But Alice is probably the most credible source ( but I don't think even Alice would be 100% credible, as people do have personal bias ), so given a choice to trust Alice vs. John and Bob, you'd probably trust Alice.

I would tag this as a discuss label for now.

[andorsk]

after doing some research: i've seen models that trust decisions are either "probabilistic" or "gradual".