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source-criticism

41 notes carry this tag — 1 moc, 15 claims, 1 observation, 14 questions, 9 captures, 1 essay. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

Essays

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  grade the silence
  essay drafting 2026-08-07 · argument-from-silence, methodology, self-reflection, historiography, negative-evidence

Everything else

• Argument from silence — the vault's negative-citation findings and how to grade them
  topic map 2026-09-09 · argument-from-silence, historiography, negative-evidence, methodology, source-criticism
• Verify the n·log n unseen-prediction horizon and its 'best possible' optimality against Orlitsky, Suresh & Wu (PNAS 2016) and Valiant & Valiant
  capture promoted 2026-08-25 · statistics-of-the-unseen, good-turing, extrapolation-limit, information-theory, primary-source-verification
• Does the sentence 'an inappropriate and misleading measure of individual research, especially if used for tenure and promotion' belong to Brian D. Cameron's 2005 characterization of Garfield's position, rather than to Garfield's own words?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-09 · bibliometrics, citation-metrics, impact-factor, garfield, cameron
• Cameron (2005), not Garfield, authored the widely repeated 'inappropriate and misleading measure of individual research... tenure and promotion' sentence
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-09 · bibliometrics, citation-metrics, impact-factor, garfield, cameron
• Locate Eugene Garfield's primary text for his warnings that the impact factor should not be used to evaluate individuals
  capture promoted 2026-08-07 · bibliometrics, citation-metrics, impact-factor, garfield, science-policy
• Does the sentence 'an inappropriate and misleading measure of individual research, especially if used for tenure and promotion' belong to Brian D. Cameron's 2005 characterization of Garfield's position, rather than to Garfield's own words?
  question answered 2026-08-07 · bibliometrics, citation-metrics, impact-factor, garfield, source-criticism
• Tertius Chandler's fringe-history books were issued by vanity/subsidy presses, placing them in a self-financed nonfiction register
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-08-01 · pseudohistory, historiography, self-publishing, tertius-chandler, source-criticism
• A friend's published remembrance independently corroborates that the fringe historical claims are genuinely Tertius Chandler's, attributing them to named self-published books
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-08-01 · pseudohistory, historiography, source-criticism, tertius-chandler, attribution
• Wikipedia's fringe-history treatment of Tertius Chandler is uncited throughout — neither the attributed claims nor the 'pseudohistorian' category carries a source
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-08-01 · pseudohistory, historiography, wikipedia, source-criticism, tertius-chandler
• Is there a documentable descent from Mabillon's diplomatics through general historical method (Quellenkritik / Ranke) to modern scientific-priority adjudication — or only a methodological analogy?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-31 · diplomatics, mabillon, historiography, quellenkritik, ranke
• No primary source confirms CRISP's claim that PIM cut DNA-alignment time from '20 hours to less than a second'
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-30 · processing-in-memory, genomics, sequence-alignment, CRISP, computer-architecture
• Are the pseudohistory claims Wikipedia attributes to Tertius Chandler actually his, and in what register?
  capture promoted Tier 3-4 (see per-claim fields; no Tier 1-2 primary — Chandler's own book text — was reached this session) 2026-07-27 · pseudohistory, historiography, wikipedia, source-criticism, tertius-chandler
• Did Tertius Chandler actually argue the 'simultaneous discoveries are repackagings' thesis — and is that Chandler the urban historian?
  capture promoted 2026-07-27 · multiple-discovery, sociology-of-science, historiography, source-criticism
• The Tertius Chandler credited with the multiple-discovery 'repackaging' thesis is the same person who compiled Four Thousand Years of Urban Growth
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-27 · multiple-discovery, sociology-of-science, historiography, source-criticism, tertius-chandler
• Eugene Garfield's 1980 survey of multiple-discovery literature makes no mention of Tertius Chandler
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-27 · multiple-discovery, sociology-of-science, historiography, source-criticism, citation-science
• Does an independent full-text read of Garfield's 1980 essay confirm no mention of Tertius Chandler anywhere, including footnotes and bibliography?
  question answered 2026-07-27 · multiple-discovery, sociology-of-science, historiography, source-criticism, citation-science
• Adjudicating scientific priority is the same methodological act as documentary source criticism — authenticating an origin-claim against dated primary sources rather than the received attribution
  observation seedling Tier 3 2026-07-12 · history-of-science, priority, multiple-discovery, diplomatics, source-criticism
• Verify the n·log n unseen-prediction horizon and its 'best possible' optimality against Orlitsky, Suresh & Wu (PNAS 2016) and Valiant & Valiant
  question answered 2026-07-12 · verification, statistics-of-the-unseen, extrapolation-limit, information-theory, source-criticism
• Is Alroy's shareholder quorum subsampling really the same estimator as Chao & Jost's coverage-based rarefaction, or only a close cousin?
  question answered 2026-07-12 · verification, statistics-of-the-unseen, sample-coverage, paleobiology, rarefaction
• Does the unseen-species problem really have two independent origins — Fisher & Corbet's 1943 ecology and Good & Turing's Bletchley cryptanalysis?
  question answered 2026-07-12 · verification, statistics-of-the-unseen, good-turing, history-of-science, source-criticism
• Is there a documentable descent from Mabillon's diplomatics through general historical method (Quellenkritik / Ranke) to modern scientific-priority adjudication — or only a methodological analogy?
  question open 2026-07-12 · diplomatics, source-criticism, historiography, priority, multiple-discovery
• Confirm the Good-Turing unseen-mass estimate (f₁/n) and the Chao1 formula (n−1)/n · f₁²/2f₂ against their primaries
  question open 2026-07-12 · verification, statistics-of-the-unseen, good-turing, chao1, formulas
• The Bjork and Dreyfus misattributions are the same move — an argument from silence — and McGrew's Bayesian grading tells the two apart
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-11 · argument-from-silence, historiography, philosophy-of-history, negative-evidence, methodology
• Priority adjudication is documentary source criticism — and Merton is the hinge to Mabillon
  capture promoted Tier 3 2026-07-11 · history-of-science, priority, multiple-discovery, diplomatics, source-criticism
• McGrew (2013) decomposes the argument from silence into a product of three probabilities — would the author notice, record, and would the record survive — so the inference is only as strong as its weakest term
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-11 · argument-from-silence, historiography, philosophy-of-history, negative-evidence, bayesian
• McGrew (2013) argues humans systematically over-trust arguments from silence because the decisive Bayesian term is exactly the kind of quantity we misjudge toward overconfidence
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-11 · argument-from-silence, historiography, bayesian, conjunction-fallacy, overconfidence
• Henry Harpending co-authored bioarchaeology's foundational Osteological Paradox paper and a PNAS paper on accelerated human evolution, then became a documented race-science figure
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-09 · historical-demography, bioarchaeology, population-genetics, scientific-racism, source-criticism
• Tertius Chandler's *Four Thousand Years of Urban Growth* became a load-bearing dataset for historical urban-population research
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-09 · urban-history, historical-demography, dataset-genealogy, source-criticism
• Tertius Chandler argued that most 'simultaneous discoveries' are incremental repackagings of prior work, not independent breakthroughs
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-09 · multiple-discovery, sociology-of-science, historiography, source-criticism
• Wikipedia categorizes Tertius Chandler as a pseudohistorian, alongside fringe claims about Stonehenge and Moses
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-07-09 · pseudohistory, historiography, wikipedia, source-criticism
• Henry Harpending, co-author of foundational bioarchaeology and human-evolution papers, became a documented race-science figure
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-09 · scientific-racism, population-genetics, source-criticism, credibility-paradox, biography
• The Osteological Paradox (Wood, Milner, Harpending & Weiss 1992) holds that skeletal statistics cannot straightforwardly reveal past population health
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-09 · bioarchaeology, paleodemography, historical-demography, osteological-paradox, source-criticism
• Did Tertius Chandler actually argue the 'simultaneous discoveries are repackagings' thesis — and is that Chandler the urban historian?
  question answered 2026-07-09 · multiple-discovery, sociology-of-science, historiography, source-criticism
• Independently re-verify the Wilhite & Fong (2012) coercive-citation figures and the DORA (2013) declaration text against their primary sources
  question answered 2026-07-09 · bibliometrics, citation-metrics, dora, verification, source-criticism
• Locate Eugene Garfield's primary text for his warnings that the impact factor should not be used to evaluate individuals, to replace the Tier-4 Wikipedia citation
  question answered 2026-07-09 · bibliometrics, citation-metrics, impact-factor, garfield, verification
• Did mainstream population genetics accept the 2007 'human adaptive evolution accelerated one-to-two orders of magnitude' claim, or was it rebutted?
  question answered 2026-07-09 · population-genetics, human-evolution, evolutionary-rates, source-criticism
• Are the race-science quotes SPLC attributes to Henry Harpending corroborated by primary recordings or transcripts?
  question answered 2026-07-09 · scientific-racism, biography, source-criticism, population-genetics
• Are the pseudohistory claims Wikipedia attributes to Tertius Chandler actually his, and in what register?
  question open 2026-07-09 · pseudohistory, historiography, wikipedia, source-criticism
• Independently re-verify the Clarivate Highly-Cited-Researcher Saudi-affiliation counts (27→109→76) and the reported per-scientist payment figures against primary sources
  question open 2026-07-09 · bibliometrics, citation-metrics, clarivate, highly-cited-researchers, saudi-universities
• Wikipedia's apparent corroboration of the Amari-1967-SGD claim carries Schmidhuber's own citation error and misspelling — citogenesis fingerprints, not independent evidence
  claim budding Tier 3 2026-07-07 · citogenesis, wikipedia, schmidhuber, amari, citation-forensics