Foray 265 · Evidence and reliance
Can we rely on project research?
Find out which influential claims survive scrutiny, where they stop working, and what better evidence could change.
Essai 1 · 1 November 2026
Audit the route from evidence to claim
Rebuild a 62-study research map. Compare its visible coding with its summary, then test how much change would overturn the leading theme.
Open the full attempt →The continuing enquiry
The foray prompt
The End, possible Ways and practical Means for a programme extending from source checks to independent replication.
Read and reuse the prompt →What this is trying to change
Project decisions borrow confidence from published research. The purpose here is to make that reliance inspectable: what was observed, what was inferred, what can be repeated, and what would change our minds.
The first attempt uses an accessible literature-review table. Later attempts may test surveys, case explanations, quantitative estimates or practical prescriptions. Influence earns attention; it does not establish either truth or suspicion.
Essai 1 is a table reconstruction and sensitivity analysis. Independent full-text recoding, original database retrieval and tests on real projects remain open. The work makes no misconduct finding or editorial recommendation.