IHR Library
Everything we publish from our work: reports, manifestos, essays, case studies, the blog. Findings carry confidence labels; anonymised cases say so in the text.
A few pages of “So They Lied to You” — the stage where most research goes wrong.
ReadEssays and field notes from the Institute: seven pieces on evidence, power and AI in real decisions.
ReadAs the study produces them. Nothing published yet: the field opened in September 2026.
Seventy years of research on evidence and decisions, in six findings that still embarrass every company calling itself data-driven.
Every company will say yes. The only measurement that means anything is where AI enters a decision — and whether anyone checks it when it disagrees with the boss.
A founder's note on what the Institute for Human Reasoning is for, what it refuses to be, and what the word "institute" obliges us to do.
A historian of science figured out who reaches for numbers and why. His answer is a map of power in your meetings.
The most common fate of a study is not being wrong. It is being filed. Here is the only metric of research value I trust, and the three questions that keep a study alive.