Evidence Synthesis

Individual pieces of evidence are unreliable. Synthesis across sources — weighting by quality, identifying convergence and divergence, resolving conflicts — produces conclusions worth acting on. Conclusion quality is bounded by the quality of the weakest evidence it leans on most heavily.

When to Use

• Multiple sources need integration into a single conclusion
• causal-inference produced experimental findings to weigh against other data
• learning-strategy produced summaries from multiple sources
• Sources disagree and the user needs to know what to believe and why
• A decision requires a "state of the evidence" assessment
• deep-document-processor extracted findings from several documents

Core Methodology