Does the Evidence Hold Weight?
Finds content that looks rigorous — charts, citations, precise numbers, method talk — but lacks what makes rigour real, and scores how much of the evidence would carry the main claim.
What this template answers
Each item below becomes a heading in the AI response.
- The claim: what is the single biggest thing this page wants me to accept?
- The runway: what rigour does the page display to make itself look solid?
- The missing planes: which ingredients of real rigour are absent, where, and what would fix each?
- What's real: which parts of the evidence genuinely hold weight?
- Verdict: how load-bearing is the evidence out of 10, and which single question to the source would settle most of it?
Categories
- Critical Thinking & Skepticism
- Science & Research
Tags
- cargo cult science
- evidence
- base rates
- statistics
- rigour
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