Research

What we found, and how we found it

Long-form research with the method attached. Every headline figure carries a receipt saying whether it was measured, computed or cited — including the ones that turn out to be ours rather than the paper's.

How to read these

Every number shows its working

Each post ends in a receipts appendix: every figure quoted in the prose, and whether it was measured by us, computed by us from figures someone else measured, or cited from a source we have read.

That distinction is not pedantry. The first post exists partly because its most quotable statistic — an 84% higher error rate — was a relative difference we derived and printed directly beneath somebody else's citation, where it read as theirs.

The rule

A figure without a receipt does not ship

The build fails a post whose prose quotes a percentage the appendix does not carry. It is a gate rather than a habit, because a habit is what fails on the busy week.

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