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Practice
Match reasoning risks to controls
Match each reasoning risk to a useful control.
Reasoning quality screen
Normalize scope before calling two statements inconsistent
- Scope
- Same subject, time, unit, and definition
- Conflict
- Claims that cannot coexist
- Ambiguity
- Words with multiple operational meanings
- Context
- Base rate and source population
- Challenge
- Disconfirming evidence and alternatives
Contradictions, ambiguity, missing base rates, selection effects, and confirmation bias require different checks.