Media, education, crime, and migration.
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| In the total randomized sample, 12-month symptom severity did not differ significantly between PROTECTtraining and PROTECTinfo, and secondary outcomes also did not differ significantly. | QUANTITATIVE | Supported |
| PROTECTconfirm randomized 1,793 students in 44 Baden-Württemberg secondary schools to four weekly 90-minute sessions of CBT-based PROTECTtraining or structurally parallel media-literacy PROTECTinfo. | OBSERVATIONAL | Supported |
| In a two-arm randomized trial, a 5-week One Step Back psychological-decentering program was compared with an active physical-and-cognitive-exercise control among 114 UK secondary-school adolescents at risk of depression. | OBSERVATIONAL | Supported |
| The ETUCARE study reported that emotional-regulation skills mediated the relationships between intervention assignment and both procrastination and study engagement. | INTERPRETIVE | Supported |
| In a randomized study of 436 participants, the ETUCARE online program increased study engagement and decreased academic procrastination over eight weeks compared with a control group. | QUANTITATIVE | Supported |
| In the study, observed outbreak reporting declined by a median of 32% for each additional hour of travel time from a health facility. | QUANTITATIVE | Supported |
| The study reported substantial differences among Harris County magistrate judges in some misdemeanor bail decisions, producing inconsistent outcomes across similar defendants. | COMPARATIVE | Supported |
| The study's model attributes higher observed polarization under lower turnout to underrepresentation of centrist voters and overrepresentation of ideological extremes when a centrist governing coalition is expected. | CAUSAL | Leans supported |
| In the study's Dutch election analysis, lower voter turnout was associated with higher observed electoral polarization, with more extreme parties benefiting disproportionately. | COMPARATIVE | Supported |
| The same supervised ed-tech intervention raised mathematics achievement by nearly half a standard deviation over 31 weeks, with gains across achievement levels and question difficulty. | QUANTITATIVE | Supported |
| In 83 residential government middle schools in Uttar Pradesh, dedicated lab-in-charges increased Khan Academy usage from 7.2 to 47.4 minutes per week. | QUANTITATIVE | Supported |
| Across the studied Bronze Age Greek communities, non-local individuals represented roughly 5–10% of analyzed individuals, were most likely among young adults under 30, and were not identified among the children studied. | COMPARATIVE | Supported |
| Compared with matched controls, female victim-survivors of disclosed financial abuse had higher cash withdrawals and transport/legal costs and were more likely to claim welfare benefits in the seven-year pre-disclosure period. | COMPARATIVE | Supported |
| In anonymized UK retail-bank data, female victim-survivors of disclosed financial abuse had more depleted savings, higher debts, more missed payments, and lower credit scores than matched controls over the seven years before disclosure. | COMPARATIVE | Supported |
| In the Uganda trial, phone-call tutorials increased learning by 1.193 operation levels and increased the share reaching the highest proficiency level by 34.4 percentage points. | QUANTITATIVE | Supported |
| In the study’s Nepal and Philippines delivery comparison, government teachers improved learning by 0.40 operation levels and NGO teacher aides by 0.30 operation levels. | QUANTITATIVE | Supported |
| In the study’s pooled five-country trials, phone-call and SMS tutoring produced an estimated 3.6 learning-adjusted years of schooling per US$100 spent. | QUANTITATIVE | Supported |
| In that study, GPT-4-derived predictions were strongly correlated with observed treatment effects at a level similar to pooled human forecasts, but systematically overestimated effect sizes. | COMPARATIVE | Supported |
| A 2026 study evaluated LLM predictions using an archive of 70 preregistered US survey experiments containing 469 experimental effects and 119,330 participants. | QUANTITATIVE | Supported |
| The language-change study quantified model forecasting ability for dialect-pattern dynamics up to a twenty-five-year horizon using Kullback–Leibler divergence between forecasts and observations. | QUANTITATIVE | Supported |
| A model fitted to high-resolution twentieth-century US dialect surveys reported that migration can rapidly destroy spatial linguistic patterns, while linguistic accommodation can create and protect them, producing partially predictable pattern dynamics with diffusion. | COMPARATIVE | Supported |
| In a cluster-randomized trial of 400 permanent-supportive-housing residents, a brief smoke-free-home intervention did not significantly increase adoption maintained for at least 90 days at six months, although it increased one-day smoke-free-home adoption and seven-day point-prevalence abstinence. | QUANTITATIVE | Supported |
| In a randomized trial of 649 school-age youth in 467 families experiencing parental divorce, the fully digital SES NXT intervention group missed 3.4 school days over 12 weeks versus 6.6 in a waitlist control group and had fewer partial absences. | QUANTITATIVE | Supported |
| In pooled test-negative case-control data from 2,243 Indian children hospitalized with acute gastroenteritis, three doses of ROTASIIL had 52% adjusted effectiveness against rotavirus-gastroenteritis hospitalization among children aged 3–23 months. | QUANTITATIVE | Supported |
| In the SHIP HOPE cluster-randomized trial of 2,514 children in 10 Chinese primary schools, a comprehensive hygiene package did not significantly reduce one-year H. pylori prevalence or incidence, although it substantially improved H. pylori knowledge. | QUANTITATIVE | Supported |
| Genomic analysis of 34 ancient individuals from southwestern Finland found coastal and inland Early Medieval groups were initially similar, but later coastal individuals had substantially greater Scandinavian ancestry while inland ancestry showed long continuity; the data also placed the region in a wider circum-Baltic relatedness network. | HISTORICAL | Supported |
| Across five randomized trials in India, Kenya, Nepal, the Philippines and Uganda, targeted tutoring delivered by phone calls produced large learning gains during school disruptions, while text-message delivery had mixed results; the approach was effective when delivered by government teachers or NGOs. | QUANTITATIVE | Supported |
| The exploratory clinical-trial social-media comparison reported a Jaccard similarity coefficient of 0.159 between the Bluesky and Twitter/X discussion datasets. | QUANTITATIVE | Supported |
| In an exploratory comparison of clinical-trial discussions, Bluesky discourse was more cohesive and research-oriented with more specialized vocabulary, whereas Twitter/X discourse was more fragmented and event-driven. | COMPARATIVE | Supported |
| In the U.S. oncology-trial analysis, ZIP codes in the lowest median-income tercile had significantly lower trial success rates than ZIP codes in the middle and highest income terciles; the lowest-versus-highest comparison reported p < 0.0001 and OR 1.13 [1.10–1.16]. | QUANTITATIVE | Supported |
| An analysis of 15,658 U.S. oncology clinical trials found that trial locations were skewed away from ZIP codes with lower median incomes. | QUANTITATIVE | Supported |
| The Farta District survey documented 50 wild edible plant species from 41 genera and 33 families; fruits were the most frequently utilized edible part at 48.0%, and indigenous knowledge varied significantly among socio-demographic groups. | QUANTITATIVE | Supported |
| The Farta District wild-edible-plants survey was conducted from March to December 2025 across eight kebeles and collected data from 144 informants using interviews, focus groups, guided field walks, and market surveys. | QUANTITATIVE | Supported |
| In an eight-week cluster-randomized trial of 277 Chinese third-grade students, digital game-based music learning improved musical knowledge and six motivation measures, while the group-by-time effect on aural skills was not statistically significant. | COMPARATIVE | Supported |
| Among preservice English teachers, resilience was positively associated with academic self-efficacy; informational teacher support significantly strengthened that association, whereas emotional teacher support did not significantly moderate it. | OBSERVATIONAL | Supported |
| The study of preservice English teachers surveyed 202 participants, used hierarchical regression, and followed up with semi-structured interviews involving 7 participants. | QUANTITATIVE | Supported |
| Between 2012 and 2023, the Italian School of Ants citizen-science project engaged over 6,000 participants, sampled urban ant diversity in 136 municipalities across three-quarters of Italy’s regions, and identified 62 native and non-native species. | QUANTITATIVE | Supported |
| In two reported experiments on dark cultural heritage communication, advertising appeal type affected willingness to support heritage preservation through emotional arousal and self-construal, with effects that were not fully consistent across verbal and behavioral outcomes. | CAUSAL | Supported |
| In the reported study, higher media literacy was associated with improved detection of political deepfakes and reduced liking and sharing intentions. | COMPARATIVE | Supported |
| In a study of 1,124 participants from the United Kingdom, Slovenia, and Italy, high-plausibility political deepfakes were less likely to be detected and received more positive evaluations than low-plausibility deepfakes. | COMPARATIVE | Supported |
| In the study's fast-resource condition, groups without payoff information performed worse than solitary participants, while groups with full payoff information collected more points than solitary participants. | COMPARATIVE | Supported |
| In an online 3D immersive-reality experiment with 621 participants, groups of five outperformed solitary participants in tracking a mobile resource only when payoff information was available. | QUANTITATIVE | Supported |
| In the Nepal and Philippines delivery experiments, phone-call tutoring improved learning by 0.40 operation levels with government teachers and 0.30 operation levels with NGO teacher aides. | COMPARATIVE | Supported |
| Across five randomized trials in India, Kenya, Nepal, the Philippines and Uganda, weekly phone-call tutoring plus SMS increased average numerical-operation performance by 0.321 standard deviations relative to control. | CAUSAL | Leans supported |
| In the Catalonia pre-service-teacher study, conflict-related pathways were limited to the Moroccan target group. | COMPARATIVE | Supported |
| In that study, no comparable association emerged between higher interethnic contact and support for students’ host-culture adoption. | COMPARATIVE | Supported |
| In a sample of 506 pre-service teachers in Catalonia, higher interethnic contact was associated with stronger support for students’ heritage-culture maintenance. | COMPARATIVE | Supported |
| The study concluded that teacher expertise and critical engagement remain essential for ensuring the accuracy, depth, and pedagogical value of GenAI-generated science lessons. | INTERPRETIVE | Supported |
| In the study, ChatGPT-generated lesson-plan outputs typically lacked specificity and contained inaccuracies, while iterative prompting did not substantively elevate systems-thinking complexity. | COMPARATIVE | Supported |
| In the study, ChatGPT-generated high-school socioscientific-issue lesson plans provided opportunities mainly at basic levels of systems thinking. | OBSERVATIONAL | Supported |
| Readers should take out paid memberships with the independent journalists and writers they trust. | NORMATIVE | Not assessed |
| Trump announced the press ban because he knows the only way to hide his poor polling and his presidential failures is to stop the media from reporting the truth. | CAUSAL | Unresolved |
| Nicolle Wallace said Trump wants people to be afraid to cover him aggressively and that this seems to be the intent of the ban. | TEXTUAL | Supported |
| Reporters Without Borders said press access is not a privilege for journalists but a right. | TEXTUAL | Supported |
| The Freedom of the Press Foundation said it is difficult to imagine a more blatant violation of the First Amendment than banning news outlets from the People's House for criticizing the government, and that the attacks show how scared Trump is of an informed public. | TEXTUAL | Supported |
| Representative Jim McGovern said fascist and communist governments limit press access to favorable outlets, persecute journalists and suppress truthful reporting, and that Trump's administration is doing all of that. | TEXTUAL | Supported |
| Heinrich's statement said Trump described his own planned action in the Oval Office as a ban on the free press, and that press protection does not depend on whether the president likes an outlet's coverage, agrees with its reporting, or approves of its questions. | TEXTUAL | Supported |
| Jacqui Heinrich is president of the White House Correspondents' Association and a Fox News reporter. | OBSERVATIONAL | Supported |
| In China the Communist Party controls all media, there is no independent press, and the Chinese people have no access to information about their own country unless the government has approved it. | OBSERVATIONAL | Supported |
| Trump compared the United States' treatment of the press to China's. | INTERPRETIVE | Supported |
| Trump replied that he did not know about that, that he thinks the United States is repressive also, that the country gets fake news, and that it does not repress but they write fake news. | TEXTUAL | Supported |
| AFP's Danny Kemp asked Trump what signal the ban sent given Xi Jinping's White House visit in the coming weeks and China's record on journalists. | OBSERVATIONAL | Supported |
| Trump made his remark praising Breitbart in response to being asked which outlets cover him fairly. | OBSERVATIONAL | Contradicted |
| Steve Bannon once described Breitbart as the platform for the alt-right. | TEXTUAL | Supported |
| Breitbart News is co-owned by the Mercer family. | OBSERVATIONAL | Supported |
| During the September 18, 2026 Oval Office event Trump held up printouts from Breitbart News and pointed to them. | OBSERVATIONAL | Supported |
| On September 19, 2026 reporters from CNN, MS NOW and Politico were denied access to White House grounds following Trump's announced ban. | HISTORICAL | Supported |
| Asked what the ban would mean in practice, including whether badges would be taken or the outlets barred from the pool, Trump did not specify. | OBSERVATIONAL | Supported |
| Trump named the New York Times and the Washington Post as potential future targets and said the White House would probably stop displaying those papers. | TEXTUAL | Supported |
| Trump said it was a very simple ban, that he did not want the outlets in his office or at the White House, that the ban would go as far as you can, and that he would love it if they straightened themselves out. | TEXTUAL | Supported |
| The same reporter repeated the question about the ban, and Trump then said "Oh, the ban on the free press, right?" | OBSERVATIONAL | Supported |
| Asked what the ban would look like, Trump said he was involved in many bans and had more bans going than any human being. | TEXTUAL | Supported |
| Trump's Truth Social announcement included a parenthetical saying MS NOW recently changed its name from MSNBC due to lack of viewership and credibility. | TEXTUAL | Supported |
| Trump's Truth Social announcement said media outlets should not be able to constantly write or report fiction and lies when covering the President, the Trump Administration or the United States. | TEXTUAL | Supported |
| The Soviet Union's newspaper named Truth printed only what the Kremlin approved, and journalists who refused to go along with the propaganda were imprisoned or killed. | HISTORICAL | Supported |
| Trump's end goal is complete control of everything Americans see and hear. | INTERPRETIVE | Unresolved |
| A federal judge forced Trump's White House to restore CNN reporter Jim Acosta's press credential in 2018. | HISTORICAL | Supported |
| After a reporter noted that the First Amendment protects freedom of the press, Trump replied "Thank you for telling me that." | TEXTUAL | Supported |
| The September 18, 2026 Oval Office session was a press conference Trump held to announce the press ban. | OBSERVATIONAL | Contradicted |
| Trump's aim in banning news outlets is complete control of what Americans see and hear. | INTERPRETIVE | Unresolved |
| On September 19, 2026 journalists from CNN, MS NOW and Politico were kept off White House grounds, and the outlets then sued on First Amendment grounds. | HISTORICAL | Supported |
| Trump cut off NBC's Kelly O'Donnell with "Not you" before she finished a follow-up question and pointed to a different reporter. | OBSERVATIONAL | Contradicted |
| At the same Oval Office event Trump said he grabbed the first lady's back or another part of her body on the stalled escalator. | TEXTUAL | Supported |
| WHCA president Jacqui Heinrich said Trump described his own planned action as a ban on the free press, and that the Constitution protects press freedom from government interference. | TEXTUAL | Supported |
| Sanders also said the president is right to support the First Amendment and right to ask that the press be honest and fair. | TEXTUAL | Supported |
| Sarah Huckabee Sanders said it is hard to argue against a free press while standing in the Oval Office asking the president questions. | TEXTUAL | Supported |
| Asked about Xi Jinping's visit and China's record on journalists, Trump said he did not know about that and that the United States is repressive also. | TEXTUAL | Supported |
| Asked what the ban means in practice, Trump replied "which ban?" and said he has more bans going than any human being. | TEXTUAL | Supported |
| Trump called the New York Times and Washington Post fake news and said those papers would probably no longer be displayed in the White House. | TEXTUAL | Supported |
| Trump's Breitbart remark came in answer to a question about whether the ban would survive a court challenge, not a question about which outlets cover him fairly. | TEXTUAL | Supported |
| Trump said he does not get fair press, that he gets it from Breitbart and a little from Fox, and that Fox has the worst polls in the business. | TEXTUAL | Supported |
| Trump said a court should not allow fake news to be written day after day, and that what a court allows depends on the judge. | TEXTUAL | Supported |
| Asked whether he was trying to intimidate the press, Trump said he dislikes dishonest press, told the reporter she was terrible, and said he likes to see honest press. | TEXTUAL | Supported |
| Trump used the phrase "ban on the free press" while restating a reporter's question about what the ban would look like, not while announcing it. | TEXTUAL | Supported |
| In the Oval Office on September 18, 2026, Trump referred to his own action as the ban on the free press. | TEXTUAL | Supported |
| Trump's Truth Social post announcing the ban also asserted that the US government paid Politico an illegal $8 million subscription. | TEXTUAL | Supported |
| On September 18, 2026, Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that CNN, MS NOW and Politico were barred from the White House, saying other outlets would follow. | HISTORICAL | Supported |
| Van Jones was a CNN political commentator in 2024. | HISTORICAL | Supported |
| People should have more children, and building fully integrated childcare that lowers the cost of raising them is the single biggest thing anyone could do for humanity. | NORMATIVE | Not assessed |
| More than 150,000 people die on Earth each day. | QUANTITATIVE | Supported |
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