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Checking what it gives you

Seven screens. About three minutes.

One large box labelled it looks right. it looks right

That is the problem.

Wrong answers do not look wrong.

A cut-away box labelled the answer with three boxes inside: names, dates, figures, the last in green. the answernamesdatesfigures

Three things go wrong most.

Check those three and you catch most of it.

A box labelled a figure with an arrow to a box labelled where it came from, in amber. a figurea source

Every figure needs a source.

If it cannot show you one, do not send it.

Two panels. On the left a green box labelled you can check. On the right a slate box labelled you cannot. keepcutyou can checkyou cannot

Cut what you cannot check.

A sentence you cannot stand behind is not yours.

A box labelled your name at the bottom of a document. your name

Your name goes on it.

Not the tool’s. That is the whole reason to check.

Do today

Take one thing an assistant wrote for you and check every number in it.

That's the whole thing