Your work is only useful if both sides of an issue would recognize it as fair. WorldbyFlow maps every stakeholder's stated position with its leverage and evidence, lays out the arguments on each side without a thumb on the scale, and reads public opinion with the pollster and the sponsor named.
Written for Analyst at a think tank, association, or public agency.·Runs in the Policy domain
Policy analysis is the discipline of describing a fight accurately. The scans here are its tools: the positions actors have actually taken, the arguments laid out neutrally, the polling with its method and sponsor shown, a read on the problem itself before the solutions, and a graded explanation when a headline number moves and everyone claims credit.
Every stakeholder's stated position on an issue, with leverage and the evidence for it, written to a non-partisan register. The map a briefing starts from.
The arguments on each side of a proposition, laid out neutrally with their strongest form and the evidence each rests on. The fair page.
A poll read naming each pollster, its field dates, sample, method and sponsor, with the spread shown rather than averaged. Public opinion as it was actually measured.
The problem read before the solutions: what it is, how it is measured, who it falls on, what is known and disputed about its causes.
A headline number moved and every side has a story. Candidate explanations graded against the record.
The order matters. The first read gives you the structure; the next ones fill the parts that are hardest to source by hand.
You know the players. Check whether the read gives each side its actual position, at its actual strength, before trusting it on a new issue.
Each side at its strongest, with evidence. The page you can hand to both a proponent and an opponent.
Pollster, dates, sample, method, sponsor, spread. The polling section written to a standard.
Re-read the issue through the documented method of a thinker from the roster, with the reading stamped as an interpretation. A second angle for the brief.
Every figure and quote links to where it came from. A claim the scan could not source is marked as such rather than dressed up.
Share the read as a page for a briefing, or export it as a PDF with the positions, evidence and sources laid out for the record.
Ask a follow-up question of any result, or run a Red Team pass that tries to break its own conclusions before someone else does. How the grades work →
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