Meta-Evidence
Evidence about evidence. It's not the data point itself, but information about its reliability, context, and the process that generated it. This includes a study's statistical power, the reputation of the lab, the pre-registration of its hypothesis, and whether the result has been independently replicated. In a world drowning in information, meta-evidence is the life raft—it's how you decide which claims to actually believe when everyone has a graph.
Example: "She didn't just read the headline about coffee curing cancer. She looked at the meta-evidence: sample size (tiny), funding source (The Coffee Alliance of America), and journal prestige (sketchy). The meta-evidence concluded the evidence was garbage."
Meta-Evidence by Abzugal January 30, 2026
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