Editing Philosophical Research:Rating Hub (section)

=== Country-internal or country-independent questions ===

* Is this description or argument scientifically accurate? ("Scientific consensus test") - [[Ontology:P201|P201]]
* Is this description or argument historically accurate? Does it present the set of events that have happened as far as anyone can tell or does it present another unverifiable set of events? ("Historical accuracy test") - [[Ontology:P202|P202]]
* Can one take this description or argument and identify the historical progression of tangible objects and processes it is describing? ("Object test") - [[Ontology:P206|P206]]
* Does this description or argument strictly put which figures are in authority and which authority figures people side with over what factually happened? ("Figurehead test")
** May be used to fail conspiracy theories. Rather hilariously highlights a lot of historical Trotskyist arguments as actually being conspiracy theories.
** "The proletariat" is not an authority figure. "Stalin" or "Trotsky" do count as authority figures.
* Is this description or argument unnecessarily opaque for its intended educational level? ("Dirac test") - [[Ontology:P203|P203]]
* Is this description or argument so terribly boring and full of monotone writing that normal people would not be able to focus?
* Would this description or argument make somebody with ADHD look like they have totally normal executive function when they choose to stop listening to it?
* If normal people saw this description or argument, would they actually care that this was the answer? Is the description or argument answering the wrong question rather than the questions everyone actually wants answered? ("Question-begging test") - [[Ontology:P207|P207]]
* Is it possible this description or argument would sound completely stupid if the author just woke up, got out of bed and touched grass? ("Sunny test") - [[Ontology:P214|P214]]
* Does this description or argument spend so much time on describing problems most people already know about it takes time away from contemplating solutions? ("Althusser test") - [[Ontology:P208|P208]]