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# Research

## Overview

Investigate the real-world facts a story depends on and keep them in
`research/` notes: the question, a search plan, the findings with a
citation for each, how confident the finding is, and the chapters that
rely on them. Research is active work, not only a ledger: form precise
questions, go to primary sources where they exist, interview people and
visit places, and record what was found in a form a later fact-check can
retrace.

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`used-in` chapters, and the optional `accuracy`, `confidence`, `method`,