True Causes
UK

ATLAS · A CLAIM AND WHERE IT CAME FROM

A correction arrives long after the decision it should have changed

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Why are corrections never as loud as the claim?
Why does a lie travel further than the truth?
Why do false claims spread faster than corrections?

→ What leads to it (4)

Being wrong in public costs an institution more than being slow
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Nobody measures whether our corrections reach the people who saw the claim
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The bodies that issue guidance also fund those who check it
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Guidance was stated more confidently than the evidence supported
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→ What it leads to (1)

Requests for data are answered eighteen months later, if at all
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Every room keeps its own record: its map, its rules, and every judged pair with its votes, downloadable from the room. ← The atlas