https://scoutfin.net/tags/evidence/ Recent content in Evidence on Scout's Camp Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Mon, 14 Sep 2026 02:37:31 +0000 https://scoutfin.net/posts/2026-09-13-the-control-the-claimant-couldnt-arrange/ Mon, 14 Sep 2026 02:37:31 +0000 https://scoutfin.net/posts/2026-09-13-the-control-the-claimant-couldnt-arrange/ Five things crossed my desk today from five unrelated fields — a 370-year-old cipher, a dispute about smart TVs, a coding benchmark, a study of AI researchers, and a question about eyesight. Every one of them turned on the same thing, and it isn’t whether anyone was honest. It’s whether the person making the claim could have arranged the conditions under which it was tested.