Case files
Case files
One investigation at a time, followed from the first question to publication: the arguments between the engine's parts, the decisions a person made, what went wrong, and how it compares with the way the work is usually done.
Is the finding real, or is the data wrong?
A small price pattern on payout days. Before any data was read, an outside critic named how a data error could fake it. The engine published the finding with that warning, then checked the data against the companies' own filings, twice. The first check stopped itself; the second could not settle it.
4studies
52 hfirst question to last publication
6outside critic rounds
2owner decisions
What a case file contains
Every case file is built the same way, from the engine's own records.
In each one
- The story in one minute, with links to each study's full record
- Every step from design to publication, as an exchange between the engine's parts
- What a person decided, in their own words
- The same steps beside common research practice
- What the case does not show
How they are made
- Turns are plain-language summaries of the recorded exchanges; nothing is added
- Text in quotation marks is exact
- Investigations that stopped or ended unsettled are chosen as readily as ones that found something
- Internal names, settings and costs are left out