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Superseded

The 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.

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

How to read it

When Superseded appears on a page

The same claim, a different number, and enough time between the two runs that the figure moved rather than the record disagreeing with itself. Use the newest reading; the older ones are the shape of the change.

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.

SingleOne 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.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.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