Methodology

Section context

Method entries describe what a reviewer needs to reproduce or challenge a result. They do not fill missing campaign data with assumed settings.

Where the public record stops at a summary, this journal states the missing fields and the next evidence request.

Review the Methodology entry

Open the Methodology workpaper with this exact question: How should a local-grid claim be examined?

Apply the Methodology reading rule before collecting more material: Recreate the query list and use the same coordinates before and after.

Keep the Methodology evidence boundary beside the finding: A percentage summary cannot reveal point-level volatility.

Assign the Methodology follow-up as a dated task: Record scan radius, spacing, device assumptions, and business-profile identity.

Release record for Methodology

The reviewer starts from “How should a local-grid claim be examined?” and records the disposition under “A percentage summary cannot reveal point-level volatility.”; any conclusion that crosses that boundary returns to the workpaper.

The release owner then schedules “Record scan radius, spacing, device assumptions, and business-profile identity.”; the Methodology entry remains open until that task has an owner, a due date and a retained result.

Review workpaper

Create one row for each claim. Record the exact wording, the party making it, the earliest dated source, the measured object and any qualification. A link is a locator and does not replace those fields.

Add columns for reviewer, review date, source class and disposition. A disputed row can then be narrowed without reopening the whole page. The workpaper should make quoted text, calculation and editorial judgment visibly different records.

Source capture

Open the cited record and confirm the publisher before copying a claim. Save the page title, access date and qualification printed by the source. A stable URL can carry revised content, so the workpaper needs enough detail to detect a later edit.

Capture the source as it appeared during review and give the saved copy a plain identifier. When a later page differs, compare the two versions field by field before changing the journal. A changed layout alone does not alter a claim; changed wording, date or qualification can.

Baseline rule

Compare an after observation only with its own before observation under the same settings. City totals start from different query panels and local conditions. Do not average them or turn their sum into a network-wide performance rate.

Write the baseline date, panel size and scanner settings beside the result. A weak starting position can produce a large percentage change from a small movement, so retain the underlying values whenever the record supplies them. Report an absent denominator as unknown.

Grid file

A reproducible grid comparison needs the before and after exports, map center, radius, spacing, query wording, scan dates and tracked listing. The public summaries do not supply those raw fields. Their absence stays visible until the original files are obtained.

Recalculate one percentage from the retained rows and note the formula. Confirm that the listing identity did not change between scans. If the geometry or query text moved, label the result as a different observation instead of forcing it into the old comparison.

Next check

Record scan radius, spacing, device assumptions, and business-profile identity.

The current entry retains Methodology at the scope stated above.