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jru-rebuttal

Use when a Journal of Risk and Uncertainty (JRU) decision letter has arrived and you need a response-letter strategy. Triages referee reports into a revision plan and reply; it does not invent evidence or citations.

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# Rebuttal Strategy (jru-rebuttal)

## When to trigger

- A JRU decision arrived (R&R, major/minor revision, or reject-and-resubmit) and the team needs a response plan
- Referees disagree — one wants more theory, another wants more robustness — and you must reconcile them
- A report rests on a misreading and you must correct it without sounding defensive
- A requested analysis (a new elicitation, a robustness re-estimate) is large and you must scope what is feasible

## How JRU decisions work and how to read them

JRU's referees are specialists, so a report usually contains a few **deep, technical** objections rather than many shallow ones — and the editor (W. Kip Viscusi) weights the substantive decision-theoretic or measurement concerns heavily. Triage before drafting:

| Comment type | Response move |
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