STR.17:6 - Bias-Annotation

Accessible publications overrepresent technologies whose producers can and wish to disclose results. Reporting volume can reflect language, geography, financial incentives or institutional visibility rather than technical importance. Choose additional sources when those limits could change the answer, and preserve consequential inaccessible evidence as a limit.

The receiving use also creates a legitimate but partial viewpoint. A saving for the sponsor may require more preparation by customers, specialist effort or scarce infrastructure elsewhere. Carry those contributions into the possibility and its whole burden. A different recipient can warrant a different map and preference.

The practitioner may prefer a familiar technology or a novel explanation. Compare the proposed transfer with its adequate present rival, retain failures and regressions, and distinguish observations from the interpretation they support. These practices expose some bias; they do not establish neutral source coverage or forecast accuracy.