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Every investigation here states a question and answers it in one paragraph, with the evidence and the uncertainty attached. If an answer engine is going to summarize our work, it should summarize this.
Starter questions
The questions we audit ourselves against
These are asked of answer engines constantly. Each one below links to the page where we answer it directly, with the evidence rating and the limits stated on the page itself.
- does WAR actually predict team wins
A number for how much of team win variance WAR explains, plus where it breaks.
- how much is one win above replacement worth in dollars
The dollars-per-win figure, who sets it, and why it drifts each offseason.
- how is WAR calculated step by step
The formula, each component, a worked example, and the failure modes.
- are sports analytics overrated
Where models genuinely outperform judgment and where they quietly do not.
- how much of elite sports performance is decision speed not physical speed
Measured pre-movement window, the studies behind it, and the limits.
- why do non-contact ACL injuries happen
Load, fatigue and mechanics evidence, with the strength of each claim stated.
- does training load actually predict injury risk
What acute:chronic workload does and does not establish after the replications.
- why do some people perform better under pressure
The mechanism, the measurable markers, and what does not transfer.
- does firing the coach actually improve results
Before/after evidence, regression to the mean, and the organisational variable.
- how many hours of practice does expertise really take
What the 10,000-hour claim survived and what it did not.
- how much does travel and jet lag affect team performance
Time-zone direction, rest days, and the size of the measured effect.
- how much does sleep affect athletic performance
Effect sizes from extension and restriction studies, not sleep-hygiene advice.
- does altitude give a real home field advantage
Physiology plus the actual measured margin in results.
- what does the declassified UAP evidence actually show
What the documentary record supports, and explicitly what it does not.
- are the navy UAP videos explained
Per-video status with the primary source for each explanation.
- what has the US government officially said about UAP
Sourced timeline of official statements and reports.
- why are there shark fossils in the Egyptian desert
The Tethys evidence, the dating, and the limits of the inference.
- what is the Book of Enoch and why was it excluded
Manuscript evidence, canon history, and a readable modern rendering.
- what does Göbekli Tepe prove about early civilization
Dating evidence, what it overturns, and what remains contested.
- why can't the Chicago Bears develop a franchise quarterback
The structural variable, tested against the roster history.
Baseball Value
What is a baseball player actually worth, and who decides?
- What a World Series Can Prove About Payroll
- A championship determines a winner. Evaluating money, management and pressure requires a different test—and evidence beyond the final out.
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- A Baseball Organization Is More Than a Shopping List
- Leadership deserves scrutiny beyond the manager’s office, but research on coordination and player support is not a license to invent a winning-culture score.
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- Why Payroll Still Matters When the Favorite Loses
- A championship is not guaranteed by spending. That does not make financial advantage imaginary—or make low spending a competitive virtue.
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- Buying Players vs. Building Teams: Cubs and White Sox
- Chicago’s championship teams offer a better argument than imaginary standings: money and organizational judgment belong in the same conversation, not opposite corners.
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- Do Bigger Contracts Cause Baseball Players to Choke?
- Research on MLB audiences supports a serious pressure discussion, but its star-batter finding complicates the story about highly paid players choking.
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- Money Doesn't Come With a World Series
- Payroll can improve a baseball team’s prospects without guaranteeing October baseball—or a championship once it gets there.
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- The Historical 15-Win Gap Is Evidence, Not a Price List
- MLB's published payroll-ranking table shows a substantial regular-season divide. Understanding what that average can—and cannot—tell us is the real story.
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- Dodgers vs. Brewers: Look Beyond the Payroll Graphic
- The reported spending contrast is striking, but an honest comparison needs consistent accounting and evidence about how each roster produced its results.
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Athlete Cognition
How much of elite performance happens before the body moves?
- How much of elite sports performance is decision speed rather than physical reaction speed?
- Elite performers usually gain more from anticipating the next event than from possessing dramatically faster raw reflexes. The evidence is strong directionally but does not support a universal percentage split.
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- When athletes get tired, they don't get slower first — they get simpler. The research explains why.
- When athletes get tired, they don't get slower first — they get simpler. The research explains why.
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- How and when did human civilization actually emerge, and what forced the timeline to change?
- Archaeology, geology, genetics and climate science keep revising the origins of settlement, farming, cities and writing. This investigation separates real model changes from unsupported claims.
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- The job description changes when the seat gets warm. The evidence is on the tape and in the decisions.
- The job description changes when the seat gets warm. The evidence is on the tape and in the decisions.
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- Computer vision now grades every rep of every game. Here is what it sees well — and what it still misses.
- Computer vision now grades every rep of every game. Here is what it sees well — and what it still misses.
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- Late-game execution isn't clutch — it's rehearsal, workload, and decision architecture.
- Late-game execution isn't clutch — it's rehearsal, workload, and decision architecture.
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UAP Evidence
What does the documentary record actually support?
- What does the declassified UAP evidence actually show?
- The public record establishes real reports, authentic government imagery and a residue of unresolved cases. It does not establish extraterrestrial technology, recovered non-human craft or impossible performance.
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- What can actually be established about unidentified anomalous phenomena from the public record, and where does interpretation begin?
- A structured read of the public UAP record — government reporting, sensor limitations and peer-reviewed analysis — with documented evidence, open questions and interpretation labeled separately and cited.
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- What has direct exploration actually changed about our understanding of the solar system?
- Space exploration converts astronomical inference into direct measurement — and keeps contradicting the assumptions that funded the mission. This investigation covers what the missions returned.
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- How much of the universe have we actually measured, and how much is still unidentified?
- Astronomy is the discipline of measuring the past with light. This investigation covers what has been measured precisely, what is inferred, and the enormous unexplained remainder.
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- Computer vision now grades every rep of every game. Here is what it sees well — and what it still misses.
- Computer vision now grades every rep of every game. Here is what it sees well — and what it still misses.
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- RFID chips generate 200 data points per second per player. The coaches who use it best are winning the margins.
- RFID chips generate 200 data points per second per player. The coaches who use it best are winning the margins.
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- Whatever you believe about UFOs, the standard of evidence should be the same as it is anywhere else.
- Whatever you believe about UFOs, the standard of evidence should be the same as it is anywhere else.
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Chicago Bears Systems
Why do the Bears keep producing the same result with different people?
- Have NFL practice-contact restrictions increased soft-tissue injury rates?
- Thirty years of football. Two collective bargaining agreements. Fewer padded practices, a longer regular season, and a question worth asking: Is professional football protecting players from contact in preparation while leaving them exposed to injury when the games begin?
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- Why can't the Chicago Bears develop a franchise quarterback?
- Chicago's repeated quarterback failures are best explained by a development system that repeatedly changes coaches, schemes and support around young passers — compounded by genuine scouting misses.
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- Travel miles, rest days, and prime-time slots aren't distributed evenly. The Bears keep drawing the short straw.
- Travel miles, rest days, and prime-time slots aren't distributed evenly. The Bears keep drawing the short straw.
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- What the Lions' offense actually teaches — and what Chicago must copy, adapt, or leave behind.
- What the Lions' offense actually teaches — and what Chicago must copy, adapt, or leave behind.
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- Restructures, void years, and dead cap. The Bears bought time. Here is how much, and what it costs later.
- Restructures, void years, and dead cap. The Bears bought time. Here is how much, and what it costs later.
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- A rep-by-rep audit of the interior line — pass sets, run fits, and the two positions still leaking pressure.
- A rep-by-rep audit of the interior line — pass sets, run fits, and the two positions still leaking pressure.
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- From the '85 Bears to the 2010 Blackhawks — what the great Chicago defenses actually shared.
- From the '85 Bears to the 2010 Blackhawks — what the great Chicago defenses actually shared.
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- RFID chips generate 200 data points per second per player. The coaches who use it best are winning the margins.
- RFID chips generate 200 data points per second per player. The coaches who use it best are winning the margins.
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Origins Evidence
What does the material record actually support about the deep past?
- What does Göbekli Tepe prove about early civilization?
- The dating is solid and genuinely overturns the old sequence. Almost everything else about the site — including the excavators own original interpretation — has since been revised.
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- Second City Standard Evidence Key
- Is Chicago watching the beginning of the greatest center-field career baseball has ever seen?
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- What does the evidence actually establish about what separates humans from other species — and where does that evidence stop?
- Anthropology's flagship Discovery investigation: what the fossil, archaeological and genetic record actually establishes about human distinctiveness, which claims are interpretation, and which questions remain open.
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- What has direct exploration actually changed about our understanding of the solar system?
- Space exploration converts astronomical inference into direct measurement — and keeps contradicting the assumptions that funded the mission. This investigation covers what the missions returned.
- Read the evidence
- How much of the universe have we actually measured, and how much is still unidentified?
- Astronomy is the discipline of measuring the past with light. This investigation covers what has been measured precisely, what is inferred, and the enormous unexplained remainder.
- Read the evidence
- How and when did human civilization actually emerge, and what forced the timeline to change?
- Archaeology, geology, genetics and climate science keep revising the origins of settlement, farming, cities and writing. This investigation separates real model changes from unsupported claims.
- Read the evidence
- How do archaeologists move from an object in the ground to a claim about human behavior?
- Archaeology converts objects and soil layers into claims about people. This investigation explains the reasoning chain, the dating tools, and where interpretation quietly takes over.
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Machine-readable versions of this index live at /ai-index.xml and /llms.txt.