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narrative-laundering

Audit how an empirical write-up presents its analytical choices, and detect the rhetorical moves that convert a specification search into an apparently confirmatory finding. Covers HARKing, robustness theatre, selective disclosure, the vanishing pilot study, and estimator-choice narratives. Use when reviewing a paper or an agent-produced report for undisclosed search, refereeing an empirical manuscript, or scoring whether an agent disclosed the specification search it actually ran.

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