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OrderDojo
Before you trust a number, run three cheap checks — and catch most nonsense in seconds.
🔮 Open the sanity-check console →Three checks that catch most nonsense
- Orders of magnitude. How many powers of ten does the claim jump? The bigger the leap, the stronger the evidence it needs.
- Dimensions. Do the units of the formula match the units of what it’s supposed to compute?
- Calibration. Was your confidence honest — do your 90%s come true about 90% of the time?
The three checks
- Order of magnitude — the power of ten a quantity sits at; the gap between two is just counting powers of ten.
- Dimensional analysis — tracking length, time, and mass through a formula so a unit error is visible before any number.
- The Brier score — (your probability − what happened)²; it punishes confident-and-wrong far more than being unsure.