Corrections
We publish numbers, and numbers can be wrong. What counts as a correction, how we mark it, how scores get corrected too, and how to tell us we got something wrong.
We publish numbers, and numbers can be wrong. When we make a mistake we fix it here, in public. Every correction is dated and linked to the article it changes.
What counts as a correction
A correction is any change to a fact. A wrong figure. A wrong name. A wrong institution. A finding attributed to the wrong paper. A claim we said was tested that was only simulated.
If the meaning of a sentence changes, it is a correction, and it goes on this page.
What is not a correction
Fixing a spelling mistake is not a correction. Nor is rewording a sentence that was already true.
Adding something new is an update, not a correction. An update carries its own date inside the article and says what was added. We do not use an update to quietly repair an error.
How a correction is marked
The article keeps its web address. We do not delete a page to hide a mistake, and we do not publish a fresh article and pretend the first one never existed.
The corrected article carries a note at the end. The note says what was wrong, what it now says, and the date. This page lists the same thing.
If a mistake was serious enough to change what a reader would do, the note goes at the top instead of the end.
Scores are corrected too
Every article carries a credibility score out of 10. Scores move. A paper gets peer reviewed. Somebody reproduces it. Somebody fails to reproduce it. We find that we read the evidence too generously the first time.
When a score moves, the article shows the whole history, with the date and the reason for each change. We cannot quietly raise a score, because the old one stays on the page.
If you think we got something wrong
Tell us at info@realbizdigital.net. Send the article, the sentence, and what you think the correct fact is. If you have the source, send that too.
You do not have to be the author of the paper. You do not have to be an expert. If you are right, we will correct it and we will say who told us, unless you would rather we did not.
We answer every report, including the ones we disagree with. If we decide not to change anything, we will tell you why.
What we will not do
We will not edit an error away without a note. We will not take a page down to make a mistake disappear. We will not correct a fact quietly and leave the headline standing.
A publication that scores other people’s evidence has to be harder on its own. That is the whole point of this page.