Unreliable interpersonal information causes mis-coding with injurious results.

Evidence

As can be seen from what has been said above, if that information is insufficient or if it is unreliable, the individual will code the other (or the situation in which the other is involved) “erroneously,” will behave “inappropriately,” and will open himself and/ or the other to the possibility of embarrassment, shame, dishonor, insult -or any of the other multitudinous ills to which the self is subject. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 92

Categorization

• XREF: Directly supports the reader’s core claim that failed civil inattention produces injuries to the observer’s self—the psychic cost of anonymity. — connects to: Survey data-file encoding artifacts can corrupt key variables. — Ilyana Kuziemko and Ebonya Washington, Why Did the Democrats Lose the South?…, 1022
• QUESTION: How does urban anonymity specifically degrade the reliability of information about strangers, pushing the observer toward erroneous coding?