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What it shows

Three claims, four refusals

Three claims the record supports, four it refuses, and the recommendation it was built to be unable to make.

What eleven inventories can carry

Eleven workplaces are not a sample. What that rules out, what it still permits, and why the record was published anyway.

Three things the record supports

The three claims this inventory will stand behind, each with the figures it rests on and the conditions under which it would fail.

Four things it refuses

Four claims a reader could build from these figures, and the reason each one fails on the record's own material.

The recommendation it was built not to make

No brand, no price, no league table, no judgement on an object. What that choice cost the record, and what it protected.

What a second inventory would settle

Five questions that need the same eleven workplaces asked twice, and nothing else. None of them needs a price.

How to make this inventory yourself

Four fields, two closed vocabularies, and one rule fixed in advance. Plus the two things this record would do differently.

What the inventory could not see

Eight gaps, collected from every section, in order of how much they cost. The first two account for most of it.

What two hundred and eighty-four things amount to

The whole record in one page: the counts, the three findings, the four refusals, and the figure that works against all of it.

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