Emberline — Where the Number Came From

Why it surfaced

Emberline treats popular statistics as provenance puzzles: it records the claim, retrieves each cited source, and follows the chain until it reaches a supporting study, a contradiction, or no locatable source at all. The homepage’s method is unusually precise, even before the filings themselves take over.

An independent editorial project tracing repeated claims about learning, attention, and behaviour back through their citation chains.