Boundaries
Methodology
This observatory records documented sequences. It does not reconstruct private life, and it does not infer what a source does not state.
What this is
A record of how employment, income, status, relationships, health, geography, public visibility, and algorithmic exposure accumulate inside a human life course.
The research question is not why a person died. It is how quickly major transitions accumulated, and in what sequence.
What this is not
- Not a mortality prediction system.
- Not a medical diagnosis.
- Not a ranking of lives.
- Not a reconstruction of motive, personality, or mental state.
This observatory studies documented sequences of life-course events. It does not diagnose individuals, predict mortality, or infer undocumented causes of illness or death.
Classifications
Events are typed by life-course domain. Evidence is typed by how the claim is known. Protocol decisions separate what may be shown from what must be withheld.
- EMPLOYMENT
- INCOME
- STATUS
- RELATIONSHIP
- HEALTH
- GEOGRAPHY
- PUBLIC VISIBILITY
- ALGORITHMIC EXPOSURE
- EDUCATION
- CAREGIVING
- LEGAL
- OTHER
- DEATH
Life-course compression
Compression is a structural metric of documented change. Death events are recorded on the timeline and excluded from density calculations, so that accumulation of life-course change is not presented as a mortality score.
Compression does not describe proximity to death. It describes the density and sequencing of documented life-course transitions.
- A. Event density
- Number of major documented transitions within rolling 12, 36, and 60 month windows.
- B. Domain density
- How many different life domains changed during the same period.
- C. Transition interval
- Median duration between major events.
- D. Compression window
- Shortest interval containing three or more major transitions.
Labels are limited to LOW, MODERATE, and HIGH EVENT DENSITY. Individuals are not labeled high-risk, low-risk, healthy, unhealthy, stable, or unstable.
Event density describes documented life-course change. It does not indicate medical or mortality risk.
Kosuke Protocol
Observation remains distinct from interpretation and action. ALLOW may be published. HOLD remains labeled. DENY never appears in a public view.
ALLOW
- employment changes
- public career events
- publicly confirmed illnesses
- geographic moves
- public relationship changes
- awards
- financial events when publicly documented
- public visibility changes
- confirmed deaths
- confirmed cause of death
HOLD
- possible causal interpretation
- ambiguous chronology
- single-source claims
- unclear relationship between events
- uncertain medical information
DENY
- speculation about suicide
- speculation about mental illness
- speculation about drug use
- speculation about private relationships
- speculation about cause of death
- speculation about medical diagnosis
- speculation about personality
- speculation about motives
- speculation about psychological state
Kosuke Protocol: a DENY inference is retained only in private review and is never displayed publicly.