Claim

The same randomized trial found no evidence that the larger cash gift affected mothers’ measured epigenetic indices.

Type OBSERVATIONAL · truth-evaluable: yes · status at snapshot: ACTIVE · created seq 14657 · qualifiers {"population":"Mothers in the Baby’s First Years randomized trial with available epigenetic measurements.","denominator":"Mothers with available age-4 epigenetic data; the reported abstract groups were 329 high-cash and 448 low-cash mothers."}

Referenced 78 times: checked 1, looked up by assistants 1, viewed 55, shared 21. A count of attention, not evidence.

Topics

Economics · 1efd24fe Biology · 1efd24fe

Assessment

Supported

Score: 0.8808 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27745

3 of 4 review checks done · 1 counted · 2 by the author only

1 independent evidence lineage · review checks 1 of 4 · stability MEDIUM

Main unresolved issue: 2 counted evidence items have no independence review; repeats of one origin may be counted as several coverage:2464065a-9544-8903-88b8-4f8469ed1f18

Not yet independently audited.Evidence reviewed so far supports this claim, but only 1 of 4 review checks has been done.Every quoted passage was confirmed on the page when Galedra fetched it.

Why?

Strongest counted support: The abstract reports the randomized cash amounts, child DunedinPACE effect, and absence of maternal epigenetic effects. weight 2.000000 evidence

Suppressed as dependent: The excerpt directly states that the cash gift had no evidence of impact on mothers' measured epigenetic indices.

Review gaps: qualifiers reviewed, opposing search done, independence reviewed

What would most change this: One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Unresolved.

Hide calculation

0.8808 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27745 · state Supported · Review checks: 1 of 4 · stability MEDIUM · 2 sources, 1 independent lineage

Model ledger-default@0.3.0 (the default model, not the answer) · snapshot 27745 · trace sha256:2d858d028c1ba431ef4064d6a721c46b29da267e71b5cc62222f8928361a6150

Last changed at entry seq 15068; nothing logged since has borne on this claim.

How the number was reached

Each counted link is weighed by multiplying the factors the model declares; a factor it does not declare is not shown. Every factor name below links to what that number means.

Link	Working	Weight	Counted as
583e2c2e support	relevance DIRECT 2.0 × observation DIRECT_TEXT 0.9 × interpretation 0 steps, 1 − 0.15 × 0 1.000000 × authenticity UNVERIFIED 1.0 × extraction UNVERIFIED 1.0 × provenance INDEPENDENT 1.0 × edition NAMED_OR_UNRELATED 1	1.800000	0.000000 (dependent strongest only, kept e2db7403)
e2db7403 support	relevance DIRECT 2.0 × observation MEASUREMENT 1.0 × interpretation 0 steps, 1 − 0.15 × 0 1.000000 × authenticity UNVERIFIED 1.0 × extraction UNVERIFIED 1.0 × provenance INDEPENDENT 1.0 × edition NAMED_OR_UNRELATED 1	2.000000	2.000000

prior 0.50 → log-odds 0.000000 + 2.000000 (the counted weights) = 2.000000 → probability 0.8808

Under neighbouring settings of the same model: 0.8022 to 0.9309, a spread of 0.1287.

Half-even rounding, six places for weights and four for the probability. The same inputs under the same model reproduce this exactly; that is what the trace hash above is for. How a score is worked out explains every factor, why it is there, and what the model sets it to.

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Checked as part of

Statements this claim was broken out of. The claim is scored on its own; a statement's reading only counts its claims.

“A randomized U.S. trial found that larger unconditional monthly cash gifts to low-income mothers produced a −0.17 standard-deviation difference in their...” · 2 claims · 28 September 2026

Evidence for

The abstract reports the randomized cash amounts, child DunedinPACE effect, and absence of maternal epigenetic effects.

From Effects of a randomized controlled trial of unconditional cash transfers on epigenetic measures of ageing and cognition in children and mothers Read 2026-09-28 Relevance DIRECT Steps 0 Counted

The abstract directly states no evidence of maternal epigenetic impact.
The excerpt directly states that the cash gift had no evidence of impact on mothers' measured epigenetic indices.

From Effects of a randomized controlled trial of unconditional cash transfers on epigenetic measures of ageing and cognition in children and mothers Read 2026-09-28 Relevance DIRECT Steps 0 Counted

Evidence against

None.

Qualifications

None.

Suppressed as dependent

Evidence	Group	Kept instead
39cc4b68		e2db7403

Inferences

Concluded from

None.

Used as a premise in

None.

An inference is interpretation, not evidence: it never changes the assessment of its conclusion. Each premise is a claim with its own evidence.

Threads

None. Threads are for disagreements about how a determination was made — a statement whose figures are not in the passage it rests on, two sources that may share an origin. Something about the world belongs in the evidence above.

Claim edges

None. Edges are stored and displayed; v0.1 does not propagate probability across them.

Review checklist

Review checks: 1 of 4

3 checks by this claim's own author, alongside the independent review above. 1 OPPOSING EVIDENCE SEARCH · 1 QUALIFIER CHECK · 1 EVIDENCE VERIFICATION. A check by the person who recorded a claim does not raise its review coverage.

Check	Done	By
qualifiers reviewed	no
opposing search done	no
independence reviewed	no
primary source reviewed	yes	583e2c2e, e2db7403

Summary

Supported. The main support is: The abstract reports the randomized cash amounts, child DunedinPACE effect, and absence of maternal epigenetic effects. 6b43ec05

1 further item repeats the same origin and is not independent evidence. 39cc4b68

A search for evidence in the opposing direction found none. 4e47d4f7

Review checks: 1 of 4. coverage:2464065a-9544-8903-88b8-4f8469ed1f18

Generated by stub-v0.1; every sentence cites graph ids.

Contribution history

seq	event	detail
14657	APPENDED
14658	ACCEPT	AUTOMATIC_AFTER_VALIDATION
14669	LINK_EVIDENCE	by 1efd24fe (accepted)
14687	TASK_RESULT	by 1efd24fe (accepted)

Score trace

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