Methodology
Assessment Method and Release Gates
Evidence hierarchy, alignment labels, proposed scoring weights, and the publication gate that keeps unknown from becoming zero.
2026-10-08 · Research checked October 8, 2026 | Edition 10
See the public methodology page for the evidence hierarchy, alignment labels, and proposed weights. This article records the developer handoff rules from Edition 10.
Website consumption rules
- Ingest reviewed prose and its status. Never extract a numeric score from a quotation or infer beliefs from a party.
- Show source dates and missing evidence without hiding them behind tooltips.
- Compare at most five candidates at once on the same questions and time cutoff.
- Excluded features: voter profiling, demographic persuasion, automatic endorsement, and affinity scores sold as voting instructions.
Release gate
A dossier passes only if identities are correct, ballot status is correctly labeled, each substantive claim has a source, the poll proposition matches, no party inference substitutes for evidence, versions are preserved, missing data is visible, and the comparison has a written rationale.