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Rapid course · Lesson 8 · English
Course code: OCA-013Lesson 08: OCA-013-A008

Five sensitive is a Boolean sum

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Lesson map

Lesson 08. Map, example, EX054.

flowchart TD
  F["Five True flags"] --> S["sensitive 5"]
  F --> P["Two of those five still pass the filter"]
  P --> Q{"Is 5 a count of patients or of staff?"}
  Q -->|No| K["It is the Boolean sum"]

The flag is a classification bit. It is not a headcount.

Logical drawing

True and kept:  referrals/ at staff
                booking-app-config at admins
True and bad:   patient-letters/ , invoices/ , old-backup.zip
False:          rota.xlsx , price-list.pdf , logo.png

Learning outcomes

After this chapter, you should be able to:

  1. List the five objects whose flag is true.
  2. Separate that sum from the failure list and from the staff count.
  3. Refuse a kappa or a patient census read into the number 5.

8.1 The flag is Leila's label, counted once.

The sensitive rule names treatment letters, referrals, invoices, backups, and the booking configuration. The script encodes that list as five True flags and three False flags. sum adds the flags. It does not open a letter, and it does not count patients.

Two true flags still pass the membership test. referrals/ is staff. booking-app-config is admins. Both strings sit in allowed[True], so those triples increase sensitive 5 and stay out of bad. A note that says "five sensitive items were shared too widely" has added two passing rows to a list that holds three.

Eight is the staff count in the prose, and eight is also len(items). Those eights name different sets: people, and top-level objects. The script has no person field. Landis and Koch (1977) define agreement between raters. One person applied these flags, no second coding is recorded, and no kappa is defined. The printed 5 is not an agreement statistic.

8.2 Worked example

Lesson table; scroll horizontally to read all columns →

Reading of the 5 Ground Decision
Five flags are true The Boolean sum Keep
referrals/ is sensitive and not a failure staff is allowed Keep
"Five patients were exposed." No patient field Refuse
"Two raters agreed, so kappa is high." One coder, no kappa Refuse

Synthetic case. The flags encode the clinic's list. They do not count people.

Errors and limits

Do not borrow the staff total of eight as if it were the item total's meaning.

Apply

Worked answers

EX054. Five is the Boolean sum. referrals/ and booking-app-config are sensitive and still pass. The failure list stays three names. There is no patient count and no kappa.