WHAT THE ROOMS WOULD DO
Each room judged its own actions against its own root causes, at three quarters of its own votes. Nothing here is a vote across rooms: it counts, cause by cause, what each room found. A room appears once its Actions stage has closed. Each number on the map marks a root cause that action reduces.
Reduced in 1 of 1 room:
A newsroom cannot hold a specialist for every field① Check processes, not only claims, and fund that separately · Why are corrections never as loud as the claim?
Anyone with relevant expertise has funding from someone with an intere② Publish the confidence and the range with every statement, always · Why do false claims spread faster than corrections?
③ A standing review date on every piece of guidance, published in advance · Why do false claims spread faster than corrections?
④ A red team paid to argue the guidance is wrong, reporting separately · Why do false claims spread faster than corrections?
Checking an institution takes weeks and checking a tweet takes an hour① Check processes, not only claims, and fund that separately · Why are corrections never as loud as the claim?
Checking the powerful is slower per claim, so it loses on the metric⑤ Publish who funds each check, on the check · Why are corrections never as loud as the claim?
Each revision is announced as if it were the position all along⑥ Data released with the claim, or the claim carries a warning · Why does a lie travel further than the truth?
Emergency powers suspend the checks that would have caught it② Publish the confidence and the range with every statement, always · Why do false claims spread faster than corrections?
Guidance was stated more confidently than the evidence supported② Publish the confidence and the range with every statement, always · Why do false claims spread faster than corrections?
③ A standing review date on every piece of guidance, published in advance · Why do false claims spread faster than corrections?
④ A red team paid to argue the guidance is wrong, reporting separately · Why do false claims spread faster than corrections?
Once labelled, a claim cannot get a hearing even when the evidence cha⑦ Fund replication as a standing line, not a project · Why does a lie travel further than the truth?
Peer review is three unpaid people on a deadline⑧ A public register of every official claim and every later revision · Why does a lie travel further than the truth?
⑦ Fund replication as a standing line, not a project · Why does a lie travel further than the truth?
Retracting a paper takes years and the claim travels in days③ A standing review date on every piece of guidance, published in advance · Why do false claims spread faster than corrections?
The few outside are dismissed as cranks by association⑧ A public register of every official claim and every later revision · Why does a lie travel further than the truth?
No room found an action that reduces these:
- A quiet revision looks like concealment even when it is not · judged in 1 room
- Institutions investigate themselves and find nothing · judged in 1 room
- Nobody has ever measured what a late correction costs · judged in 1 room
- Nobody measures whether our corrections reach the people who saw the c · judged in 1 room
- The reply is that release would be misinterpreted by the public · judged in 1 room
- We are asked to check claims, not the guidance that generated them · judged in 1 room
- We label the claim and cannot label the confidence · judged in 1 room