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        "Imply that a change was caused by something without evidence."
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        "People affected by decisions based on them"
      ]
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        "name": "Measure",
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                    "text": "In which units?",
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                  }
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              }
            ]
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                "id": "relative-finding",
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                    "text": "What is the relative or percentage change?",
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                    "text": "Is the baseline appropriate?",
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                  }
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              }
            ]
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        "rationale": "Gradients drive flows.",
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                    "text": "What is the gradient over this distance?",
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                    "text": "Which process does this gradient drive, such as diffusion?",
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                  {
                    "text": "How fast?",
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            "description": "Signal versus noise.",
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                    "text": "Is the change a real trend or random variation?",
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                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Which statistical test applies?",
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                  }
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              }
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                    "text": "Does the chart present the change fairly?",
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                    "text": "Is the axis truncated?",
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              }
            ]
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            "description": "Coins returned.",
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              {
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                "description": "Money sense.",
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                    "text": "Is change as returned money or coins meant?",
                    "kind": "boundary"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Which entry fits?",
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                  }
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              }
            ]
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          {
            "id": "social",
            "name": "Social",
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                "id": "social-finding",
                "name": "Social",
                "description": "Social change.",
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                  {
                    "text": "Is social or organisational change meant?",
                    "kind": "boundary"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Which entry fits?",
                    "kind": "action"
                  }
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            ]
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    "Should gradient types be separate entries?",
    "How should change metrics be linked?",
    "How should the money sense be split off?"
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    "questions": 16
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}