DEC-006 — Profile, not score
Authority: CLM-L024 · CLM-L025 | Edition: 1.0 | Status: Active
Principle
A person has a Nature profile — nine engagement orientations, each at a level, forming a combinatorial pattern. The word score reduces this to a single number and imports the psychometric assumption that a person's value in the framework is a point on a scale.
"Her score" is ambiguous (which Nature? what scale?), reductive (collapses nine dimensions to one), and evaluative (scores imply better/worse). "Her profile" names the whole structure correctly.
The word score is acceptable in narrow technical contexts (see Exception). Everywhere else, use profile.
OK examples
| ✓ OK |
|---|
| Her Nature profile shows high Creative and Healing Natures. |
| His profile is led by Administrative and Investigative Natures. |
| Reading a profile means reading all nine Natures in relation to situational demand. |
| The MN Situation Map produces a Nature profile, not a single score. |
| Her profile has changed since she moved into a new role — or the situation changed what the profile reveals. |
Not-OK examples
| ✗ Forbidden | ✓ Rewrite |
|---|---|
| What's her score? | What does her profile show? |
| His score on the MN Situation Map came back high. | His MN Situation Map profile shows strong Protective and Administrative Natures. |
| She has a high score. | She has a strong profile — led by high Creative and Healing Natures. |
| Your MN score indicates... | Your Nature profile indicates... |
| What did you score? | What did your profile show? |
Forbidden vocabulary
score (as shorthand for the whole profile) · your MN score · what you scored · high score · low score · overall score
Required vocabulary
Nature profile · profile · what your profile shows · your profile is led by · reading a profile
Why
This entry is downstream of:
- CLM-L024 — Nine Natures as named concepts. A profile is nine named orientations, not one number.
- CLM-L025 — The combinatorial profile space has no preferred direction. "Score" implies a scale with a good end. "Profile" implies a map with no preferred configuration.
Single-number scores also invite the "high is better" misreading that DEC-001 prohibits. A profile resists that — you cannot say "her profile is better than his" in the same way you can say "her score is higher."
Exception
Individual Nature level scores are acceptable in data tables, map reports, and API documentation — but always labeled by Nature name: "Creative Nature: high" or in numeric form within a table. Never as a free-standing "her score is 8.2."