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Glossary/Causal basis

Inferred (causal link)

The scan's own causal reading from the sequence or structure, labelled as its own.

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

How to read it

When Inferred appears on a page

The scan's own causal reading from the sequence or the structure, labelled as its own. This is a legitimate rung, not a failure: a well-labelled inference is worth more than a link dressed up as documented. Treat it as the scan's argument and test it.

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.Contested (causal link)Credible sources genuinely disagree about whether this link holds.
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