Reviewer Brief

A small ask for outside critique.

Campus Evidence Lab is seeking critical review of its methodology, source standards, use-limit language, and sample records. Review is not endorsement.

Project In One Paragraph

Campus Evidence Lab is a static-first, public-source archive of campus civil-rights records. The current MVP has 4,000 records, 947 schools, event and school dossier pages, source pages, citation guidance, source audits, correction workflows, reviewer queues, and dataset snapshot hashes. It is designed to help people inspect what is publicly documented without converting records into rumor, rankings, safety scores, or prevalence claims.

What Reviewers Are Asked To Do

Review the methodology for unclear inclusion, exclusion, source hierarchy, verification, confidence, deduplication, privacy, or no-ranking rules.
Review 10 sample records and compare school, date, category, affected-community labels, confidence, verification, and source support against the public source basis.
Review the research guide and identify language that could still invite overclaiming.
Review the reviewer queue and suggest better ways to prioritize source, classification, or low-confidence review.

Three Review Questions

What feels weak, overstated, missing, risky, or methodologically immature?
Which source standard, category rule, or use limit should be stricter before the archive grows?
What would make the project more useful to researchers, civil-rights reviewers, journalists, student groups, or families without increasing overclaiming risk?

Suggested 10-Record Sample

Reviewers can choose their own sample, or start with this mixed sample from public records:

evt_2026_0027: University of Kentucky OCR record.
evt_2026_0081: campus safety data import sample.
evt_2026_0125: campus safety data import sample.
evt_2026_0210: campus safety data import sample.
evt_2026_0300: campus safety data import sample.
evt_2026_0395: campus safety data import sample.
evt_2025_0030: earlier public-source event sample.
evt_2025_0060: earlier public-source event sample.
evt_2024_0003: older public-source event sample.
evt_2024_0006: older public-source event sample.

What The Project Does Not Claim

It does not rank schools.
It does not score safety, lived experience, danger, bias, or institutional morality.
It does not estimate incident prevalence or claim complete coverage.
It does not make legal findings beyond what public sources say.
It does not treat private allegations, anonymous tips, or social media-only claims as records.

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Acknowledgment Boundary

Reviewers are not listed publicly unless they explicitly approve the display name, organization, scope, and wording. Private criticism is useful and does not imply endorsement.