SignalRupture: A Theoretical Framework for Ground‑Truth Discrepancy in Institutional Systems develops a unified conceptual and methodological architecture for understanding how behavioural reality becomes distorted as it moves upward through hierarchical governance structures. Drawing on empirical literatures in administrative burden, diagnostic unreliability, homelessness reporting systems, and cross‑national social policy datasets, the paper identifies a recurring pattern of interpretive drift across institutional domains. The framework introduces four core constructs—Governance Altitude (GA), Signal Compression Ratio (SCR), Administrative Abstraction Index (AAI), and the Ground‑Truth Discrepancy Index (GTDI)—and provides mathematically stable definitions suitable for empirical testing. A full measurement appendix outlines coding instruments, extraction protocols, reliability procedures, and analytical models, enabling researchers to operationalize GTD across diverse institutional settings. The paper concludes with a structured falsifiability architecture, positioning SignalRupture as a testable and domain‑general theory of institutional interpretive distortion.
Signal Rupture (Fri,) studied this question.