Glossary · Measurement and evidence

denominator note

An explicit statement of what a rate was divided by. A forgery rate that counts unverifiable requests as forged inflates; counting them as genuine understates. Neither is defensible without saying which was done.

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unverifiable

Measurement and evidence

The vocabulary for saying how strongly something is known.

evidence level · false positive · percentile rank · population baseline · cohort asymmetry · self-audit invariant · unscored measurement · dated series · change receipt · regression · finding age · graded through a wall · self-audit · placeholder in record · fetcher disagreement · own-host loop · score version · row review · double-counted defect · cosmetic row · gated row · log file analysis · AI referral attribution

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