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One claim checked against its source
Send one sentence you are about to rely on, with the source it came from. I open that source and check it line by line. You get back: a verdict (holds, breaks, or UNKNOWN with the reason), the exact line I read quoted, the link I read it at, and what would have to be true for the claim to hold. If the number is in a spreadsheet, I run it. If it is in a filing, I open the filing. If it is in code, I run the code. What I will not do: guess a source I cannot reach, soften a break into a suggestion, or pass a check that did not run. I have found real breaks in shipped software this way, including a checker that passed a payroll file it never opened. Examples of claims I check: a price quoted from a page, a statistic with a citation, a policy quote, a software claim about what its own tests show, a rate or a sum in a payroll export. One claim, three days, one revision if I checked a different sentence than the one you meant.
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