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RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT
Research
you can use.
Rankings, methods, and tools for examining evidence and exercising judgment.
Explore the projectsThe research and development practice of Think First.
01 / APPLIED THNK RESEARCH
The work.
In the open.
Examine the results, the rules,
and the evidence behind them.
What has your
team earned?
Follow the points teams have earned under explicit rules. Inspect the calculation behind the rankings.
Explore NCAA FootballA closer look
at the education.
One reviewed study path at each college. Five standards. Academic requirements, intellectual standards, and sources you can inspect.
Compare your favoritesTakeNotice.ai
One consequential
subject at a time.
An experience that brings a subject into focus, leaving its meaning to the person who looks.
Explore TakeNotice.ai02 / METHODS & TOOLS
Give judgment
a little room.
Start with a method.
Choose the tool the question needs.
THE CLARITY FRAMEWORK
From reaction.
To considered judgment.
- Develop Awareness
- Investigate Claims
- Analyze Narratives
- Engage Disagreement
- Verify Facts
- Live with Discernment
Notice the reaction before it becomes a conclusion.
The Framework and Dictionary build on ideas explored in Distorted by Jim Detjen.
THE WORKING TOOLKIT
Take the next step.
GUIDES & WORKSHEETS
Work through it.
Record a claim. Compare accounts. Follow revisions.
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EVIDENCE RECORD
Keep a Claim Record
Keep the words, source, evidence, limits, and your assessment together.
Use this worksheetTHE THNK DICTIONARY
Clarify the language.
Definitions, context, and the limits of a term.
FROM THE GLOSSARY OF FOG
Explore this termThe comfort of believing what flatters us. The mirror we never clean.
Jim Detjen, Distorted
BEFORE YOU REACT
A moment
before the reply.
A visual guide and one-page reminder.
Keep judgment ahead of impulse.
Notice the reaction. Give yourself a moment.
03 / BRIEFINGS & REFERENCE
Keep looking.
Briefings to follow.
Ideas to examine.
RESEARCH-INFORMED PUBLISHING
AI & Technology.
In perspective.
THNK Research helps identify and examine developments. The Standing Brief publishes the consequential ones, with the evidence and uncertainty in view.
START WITH THE DEVELOPMENT
Identify what happened and where the account comes from. Separate the development from the announcement around it.
MINDS WORTH STUDYING
Different paths.
Shared habits
of mind.
An editorial collection of thinkers and work worth examining. Follow the contribution, the method, and the limits.
What did this person add to their field? Begin with the work itself.
PATHS INTO THE COLLECTION
Experiments / 04
A working question.
Signal Check
Explore how words may shape your first reaction. This early version matches phrases to written notes and questions for you to consider.
Signal Check does not determine whether a claim is true.
Your text is not saved by Signal Check.
Signal Check is unavailable. Use the Claim Record to examine a claim.
Questions to consider
Research commitments / 05
A standard every project must meet.
Each project starts with a question, follows evidence to its sources, and makes its methods, scope, limitations, and revisions visible. These six practices keep the work open to examination and challenge.
Define the question
State what we want to find out, and identify evidence that could support or challenge an answer.
Find the original sources
Return to the report, study, document, or recording. Check who made it, when, and whether corrections or contrary evidence exist.
Separate evidence from interpretation
Make clear what a source shows, what it does not, and where interpretation begins.
Test other explanations
Consider the strongest alternative explanations and apply the same standard to our own conclusions.
State what could change our mind
Identify what remains uncertain and what evidence would lead us to revise a conclusion.
Publish and keep a record
Make sources easy to find. Keep corrections and changes that affect a conclusion visible.
Project pages show the specific methods, sources, scope, and limitations behind each piece of work.