{
  "title": "Trade association survey definitions and data basis for AI",
  "source_page": "https://fiund.com/industries/trade-association-survey-basis-data",
  "authorship": "Original fictional Fiund editorial exercise. No actual operating records or third-party source assets are included.",
  "example": {
    "title": "Two attendance percentages can differ solely because their denominators differ",
    "context": "A fabricated association survey concerns one training session. No member identities, commercial benchmarks, prices, costs or sales plans are used.",
    "records": [
      [
        "TSV1",
        "Original exercise dictionary",
        "100 organizations invited; 50 respond; 20 responding organizations report attending the session."
      ],
      [
        "TSV2",
        "Table A",
        "Attendance rate 20%, explicitly 20 attending organizations divided by all 100 invited."
      ],
      [
        "TSV3",
        "Table B",
        "Short label attendance rate 40%; metadata defines 20 attending organizations divided by 50 respondents. Same session and period."
      ]
    ],
    "question": "Are both percentages consistent with the supplied counts, and does the difference establish a rise in attendance?",
    "answer": "TSV1–TSV3 support 20/100=20% among invitees and 20/50=40% among respondents. Both use the same reported attending count for the same session but different denominators. Their difference does not establish increased attendance over time. Preserve the population basis and shortened-label metadata, and avoid inferring attendance by nonrespondents or a trend absent another comparable period.",
    "failureModes": [
      "Calling 20% to 40% a time-based improvement when only the denominator changed.",
      "Treating respondents as the full invited population or inferring nonrespondent behavior."
    ],
    "fields": [
      [
        "Numerator definition",
        "Identifies the same reported attendance count."
      ],
      [
        "Invited versus responding denominator",
        "Explains the percentage difference."
      ],
      [
        "Session and period",
        "Shows that the tables describe one event rather than a trend."
      ]
    ],
    "holdout": "Add a later session with a different response rate. Require like-denominator comparisons and an explicit account of missing nonrespondent information.",
    "boundary": "Use fictional survey data. Exclude members, current pricing, costs, plans and nonpublic benchmark responses."
  }
}