Evidence Decision Record

EDR ID:

ECR / Experiment:

Date:

Reviewer:

Status: draft / reviewed / accepted

Question

What question were we trying to answer?

Competing Explanations Before Evidence

Observation

What was directly recorded?

Interpretation

What may the observation mean?

Explanations Weakened

Explanations Surviving

Remaining Uncertainty

Surprise Index

low / medium / high

Why?

Efficiency Notes

• What evidence was high-information?
• What was redundant?
• What slowed interpretation?

Decision

What research action follows?

• hypothesis review only
• queue follow-up experiment
• rerun with instrumentation changes
• collect replication
• pause and defer

Next Highest-Information Experiment

Name:

Why this experiment next:

Queue Entries Created

Confidence Update Recommendation

Do not update confidence here.

If a confidence review is warranted, route through the Hypothesis Review Board after EDR acceptance.