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Glossary/Causal basis

Contested (causal link)

Credible sources genuinely disagree about whether this link holds.

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

How to read it

When Contested appears on a page

Credible sources genuinely disagree about whether the link holds at all. It is a finding, not a weaker inference: the dispute over the mechanism is often the thing a decision turns on.

The family

Causal basis

How a cause-and-effect link is KNOWN, kept apart from how much it matters. A documented link can be weak; a strong link can be inferred.

Documented (causal link)A source in the record states this causal link — a finding, a filing, an official account.Reported (causal link)A named participant, analyst or institution asserts the link on the record.Inferred (causal link)The scan's own causal reading from the sequence or structure, labelled as its own.
Where you will see it

On these pages

Kinds of research that print it
Why It Changed →Yield Read →Why They Did It →
Surfaces
The causal family's link stamps
The Relations map
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