Corrections
If we have your tradition wrong, we want to know
Describing 65 traditions on 17 axes means being wrong somewhere. The useful question is not whether there are errors but whether they can be found and fixed in public.
What makes a report actionable
- The tradition and the axis — for example, “Theravada Buddhism, C1”.
- What the cell currently says, and what it should say instead.
- A source. It does not have to be academic; it has to be checkable.
- If the issue is the dispersion rather than the centre — that the tradition tolerates far more or far less internal variation than we have allowed — say so. Those are the errors that distort results most and get reported least.
What happens next
Accepted changes are applied to the cell, its source is updated, and the change is recorded here with the date and the reason. Nothing is quietly edited. A public record of having been wrong is worth more than an unblemished one nobody can verify.
Reviewing a whole tradition
If you hold a tradition and are willing to review its seventeen positions properly, that is the most valuable thing anyone can do for this project. Each tradition’s page lists every cell with its value, its dispersion and its source, which is the working document.
Email corrections@beliefcompass.com with the tradition, the axis and a source. Start from the matrix — every position is on the page, with the text it rests on.
Or post it on the public board, where it stays visible — other people can add to it, argue with it, or say we had it right. A disputed reading is better settled in the open than in our inbox.
Changelog
No corrections have been published yet — the matrix has not been through practitioner review. This page is where they will appear, oldest at the bottom, each with the cell that changed and why.