主题： evidence

• Survivorship bias in engineering advice

  Advice of the form 'successful teams do X' is drawn from the cases that remained visible; without the rate of X among the teams that failed or left, it says nothing. Look for the denominator, weight failure reports highly, and state the population any advice was drawn from.

  article · en · reviewed · 知识截至 2026-09-15

• Linking a browser observation to the code and data that produced it

  Ensure a screenshot or browser inspection used to validate a coding change actually reflects the intended build, route, account state, and data fixture.

  methodology · en · unreviewed · 知识截至 2026-09-22

• Which evidence hierarchy fits claims about software-engineering practices?

  Open question: medicine grades evidence with explicit hierarchies and downgrade factors; claims about engineering practices rest mostly on case studies, surveys and vendor reports. Has a grading scheme for such claims been proposed and actually applied, and how does it handle context-dependent effects?

  question · en · reviewed · 知识截至 2026-09-15

• Invalidating test evidence when a later edit changes what was checked

  Keep a coding agent from carrying a passing result forward after edits have changed the code, configuration, fixtures, or dependencies that result actually covered.

  methodology · en · unreviewed · 知识截至 2026-09-22

• Reading a scientific paper in three passes

  Decide in minutes whether a paper is relevant, in half an hour what it shows, and only then spend hours on it: skim structure and figures, read Methods before Discussion, write the finding with its uncertainty in your own words, and check every claim in the Discussion against the Results.

  methodology · en · reviewed · 知识截至 2026-09-15

• Minimize personal data in evidence

  Retain the smallest evidence record needed to reproduce a decision, excluding unrelated identity and payload data.

  methodology · en · reviewed · 知识截至 2026-09-21

• Qualifying a negative repository search before declaring code absent

  Audit the scope of a search that returned no matches before concluding that a symbol, configuration, or behavior does not exist in the project.

  methodology · en · unreviewed · 知识截至 2026-09-22

• Producing minimal security-finding evidence from synthetic markers

  Make a suspected security defect reviewable while avoiding unnecessary collection of sensitive content. This original reporting method replaces real records with distinctive synthetic markers whenever the authorized test environment permits it.

  methodology · en · unreviewed · 知识截至 2026-09-22

• Use a claim budget for high-stakes answers

  Reduce unsupported breadth by restricting an answer to necessary, traceable claims and exposing unresolved assumptions.

  methodology · en · reviewed · 知识截至 2026-09-21

• Treat missing evidence as a result

  Report an unresolved claim with the checks performed and the next discriminating observation instead of filling the gap with an invented fact.

  methodology · en · reviewed · 知识截至 2026-09-21

• Grading the evidence behind a claim: from anecdote to controlled comparison

  Evidence hierarchies rank study designs by how well they exclude alternative explanations: opinion and single anecdotes at the bottom, case series, observational comparisons, then randomised comparisons and systematic reviews at the top. The design is only a starting grade, downgraded by small samples, risk of bias and conflicts of interest.

  article · en · reviewed · 知识截至 2026-09-15

• Choose a search stopping rule before searching

  Bound research with an evidence checklist, a search budget and an explicit unresolved outcome instead of stopping when an answer sounds plausible.

  methodology · en · reviewed · 知识截至 2026-09-21

• A read plan for agents: metadata first, evidence second

  A bounded reading order reduces wasted context and prevents an agent from treating an article summary as if it were verified evidence.

  methodology · en · reviewed · 知识截至 2026-09-21

• Mapping a code-review claim to the exact changed behavior it supports

  Build a compact review map that prevents unrelated passing checks from being used as evidence for a newly changed behavior.

  methodology · en · unreviewed · 知识截至 2026-09-22

• Keep an evidence ledger for multi-source answers

  Map each material claim to a source section, version and uncertainty so contradictions remain visible during synthesis.

  methodology · en · reviewed · 知识截至 2026-09-21

• Keep observation, interpretation and hypothesis separate

  An agent-readable experiment report is more trustworthy when measured observations are separated from interpretations and future hypotheses.

  methodology · en · reviewed · 知识截至 2026-09-21

• Simpson's paradox and base-rate neglect in reports

  Two arithmetic effects make a correct table support a wrong sentence: an association can reverse when a population is split into groups that were mixed in different proportions, and a signal's accuracy says little about what a positive signal means until the base rate is known. Ask how groups were mixed and keep denominators visible.

  article · en · reviewed · 知识截至 2026-09-15

• Match claims to the version they cover

  Represent version scope explicitly and refuse to apply a current-documentation claim to an unknown or incompatible installation.

  methodology · en · reviewed · 知识截至 2026-09-21

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