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Glossary/Corroboration across your research

Single

One scan established it. Most of the corpus looks like this, and that is fine — it just means nothing else you have run has spoken to it yet.

The definition the product enforces, read from the same code the methodology page renders.

How to read it

When Single appears on a page

Most of the record looks like this and that is normal. One scan established the claim and nothing else you have run has spoken to it. It is not a warning; it is a count.

The family

Corroboration across your research

What the record of everything you have run adds that no single scan can: whether two separately run scans arrived at the same claim, and whether they agree.

CorroboratedTwo or more of your scans, run separately, arrived at the same claim with the same figures. Neither scan could know that; the corpus is the only place it shows up.SupersededThe same claim, a different number, and enough time between them that the figure moved rather than the record disagreeing with itself. This is a trend, not a problem — the newest reading is the one to use, and the older ones are the shape of the change.ConflictingTwo or more of your scans state the same claim with different numbers over the same period, so one of them is wrong. This is the single most valuable thing this page produces — worth settling before you act on either figure.
Where you will see it

On these pages

Kinds of research that print it
Inquiry →By the Numbers →Market Research →
Surfaces
The FACTS tab across your research
The corpus conflict flag on a completing scan
The rubric

The whole grading vocabulary, on one page

Every grade here is assigned by the same rules on every scan, and the methodology page renders those rules from the code that enforces them.

How the grades work →The whole glossary