# The Friction Lab · A worksheet for examining an action gap

*A private reflection tool, not a psychological assessment. Keep it or delete it.*

## 1. Specify the action

What precisely would count as action? When and where would it occur? How would an observer know it happened?

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## 2. Distinguish intention from action

What evidence supports the stated intention? Could the intention have changed?

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## 3. List competing explanations

Explain the same outcome in at least two genuinely different ways. Include situational explanations and the possibility that not acting was a choice.

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B. 

## 4. Ask what can change

Name one ethical, feasible change in conditions and one observation that would count against your favoured explanation.

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## 5. Keep the inference modest

What remains unknown? Whose autonomy or safety needs protecting? What would you revise after new evidence?

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The Identity–Action Gap (I / A / E / S / F) is a proposed conceptual model, not a validated scale. Further reading: https://friction.sahiltayal.com/#evidence