# rose tinted glasses (filter)

*Ordinarily means:* seeing things as better than they really are

a filter that shifts each reading inside the window before it arrives, leaving the model correct about everything it receives and wrong about the thing.

- Computed level: L10 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: psychology

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [color](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-color.visual), [glass](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-glass.material), [read](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-read.information), [receive](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-receive.communication), [window](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-window.range), [inside](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-inside.spatial), [model](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-model.representation)

**Through:** Each reading is shifted inside the window before the model receives it, so the model updates honestly on altered input; no maintenance is spent on the model itself, and no inspection of the model can locate the error.

**Novel properties:**
- pre-arrival distortion
- model-sparing filter
- uninspectable error

## Examples
- Someone newly in love reports each incident accurately, and each incident has already been softened in the seeing. *(society)*
- A dashboard that averages away latency spikes before plotting gives the on-call engineer a mental model faithful to a chart that is faithful to nothing. *(engineering)*
- A control loop around a miscalibrated sensor runs stable, well-tuned, and wrong. *(instrumentation)*

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*Canonical: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-rose-tinted-glasses.filter*  
*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-rose-tinted-glasses.filter.json*  
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