THE QUESTION
Why does a lie travel further than the truth?
Group cards you judge alike. Groups organise reading; they decide nothing.
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Clusters form from similarity, names come last
Canonical order: link pairs of ideas you judge similar — links are symmetric (A~B is B~A; direction never matters) and a tie holds once 2 members make it.
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Links are symmetric — A~B is B~A. Clusters are the groups that emerge from held ties, and only a formed cluster can be named, by a person. Your own links carry a ✕ to withdraw; you cannot remove someone else's. Clusters organise the wall and never gate the vote — two cards making the same CLAIM are a merge back in Clarify.
Links and names are made while Cluster is live; the steward’s ← reopens it.
unnamed cluster — name it if the group has a common thread, or leave it unnamed (2)
Requests for data are answered eighteen months later, if at all
~ Each revision is anno…Each revision is announced as if it were the position all along (14)
Each revision is announced as if it were the position all along
~ Requests for data are…Requests for data are answered eighteen months later, if at all (14)
unnamed cluster — name it if the group has a common thread, or leave it unnamed (2)
Once labelled, a claim cannot get a hearing even when the evidence changes
~ You cannot check a cl…You cannot check a claim whose data is not released (21)
You cannot check a claim whose data is not released
~ Once labelled, a clai…Once labelled, a claim cannot get a hearing even when the evidence changes (21)
unnamed cluster — name it if the group has a common thread, or leave it unnamed (2)
The label 'misinformation' is applied to claims that later proved right
~ Nobody keeps a public…Nobody keeps a public record of which official claims were later revised (15)
Nobody keeps a public record of which official claims were later revised
~ The label 'misinforma…The label 'misinformation' is applied to claims that later proved right (15)
unnamed cluster — name it if the group has a common thread, or leave it unnamed (2)
Institutions investigate themselves and find nothing
~ The inquiry reports a…The inquiry reports after everyone involved has retired (18)
The inquiry reports after everyone involved has retired
~ Institutions investig…Institutions investigate themselves and find nothing (18)
~ Platforms enforce the…Platforms enforce the label long after the institution has quietly moved (13)
unnamed cluster — name it if the group has a common thread, or leave it unnamed (2)
Most of the people qualified to check are inside the system being checked
~ People who were punis…People who were punished for being early are never acknowledged (18)
People who were punished for being early are never acknowledged
~ Most of the people qu…Most of the people qualified to check are inside the system being checked (18)
unnamed cluster — name it if the group has a common thread, or leave it unnamed (2)
Guidance was stated more confidently than the evidence supported
~ Being wrong in public…Being wrong in public costs an institution more than being slow (11)
Being wrong in public costs an institution more than being slow
~ Guidance was stated m…Guidance was stated more confidently than the evidence supported (11)
· not yet clustered (23)
Trust falls further from the concealment than it ever would from the error
Peer review is three unpaid people on a deadline
Fraud is found by volunteers on the internet, years later
Being unable to reproduce a result is not itself publishable
The cost of dissent is paid by individuals and the benefit is public
So institutions treat all criticism as one category and answer none of it
Replication is unfunded and therefore rare
The bodies that issue guidance also fund those who check it
Platforms enforce the label long after the institution has quietly moved
~ A correction arrives …A correction arrives long after the decision it should have changed (15)
~ The inquiry reports a…The inquiry reports after everyone involved has retired (13)
There is no body whose job is to be wrong-footed early
A correction arrives long after the decision it should have changed
~ Platforms enforce the…Platforms enforce the label long after the institution has quietly moved (15)
A career is ended by being right too soon
The reply is that release would be misinterpreted by the public
A paper that contradicts the field is reviewed harder than one that confirms it
The few outside are dismissed as cranks by association
The archive of the old guidance disappears from the website
A researcher who audits a funder's work loses the funder
Journalists do not have the specialism to notice a quiet change
There is no mechanism to un-label a claim that turned out to be true
Nobody is compensated for having been correct
Reviewers are chosen from the same small group
The correction is technically public and effectively invisible
A genuine critic and a bad-faith one look identical from a distance