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Evidence and Source Quality Checklist

A short protocol for grading the sources behind a claim: provenance, independence, recency, and reproducibility.

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Governance debates rarely fail on logic. They fail on unexamined inputs.

The protocol grades sources, never conclusions.

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Grading dimensions

  • Provenance: can you reach the primary source in two clicks?
  • Independence: does the source benefit from the claim?
  • Recency: is the data still valid for the current parameters?
  • Reproducibility: could a third party recompute the figure?
  • Completeness: what was excluded, and was the exclusion stated?