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 ## Inference
 
 * **Never conclude from ONE sample.**
+* **⚠️ The specific observation and the general rule read identically on the
+  page — and the general one is what the next reader uses.** This cost five
+  corrections across two agents in two days, and none of them was carelessness
+  about the measurement; every underlying observation was true of the asset
+  actually looked at. The failure is reaching for the general form in the same
+  breath as the specific one:
+  * "the two chunks are two stems of one performance" — true of a *music bank*,
+    written as a fact about voice, where one of the two is digital silence;
+  * "the extra bytes are a duplicated channel, not fidelity" — true of `ADV`,
+    and the size ratio it implies runs 0.0778 to 2.9163 across the disc;
+  * "everything the sequencer paces off `rest.t` is late" — true of the *title*,
+    and false of the screens actually checked;
+  * "a three-stream cue is a movie cue" — mine, and `BIRD_224` is neither;
+  * "take the highest-rate, highest-gain stream" — mine, and on `ADV` those two
+    criteria select *different* streams.
+
+  **The counter is cheap and it is always the same one: run the census before
+  writing the rule.** A ratio that is tight over 28 assets is a format fact; a
+  ratio that scatters 37× was one asset wearing a rule's clothing. Where the
+  census cannot be run, write the specific sentence and *say* it is specific.
 * **A law proved on one population is a hypothesis on the next.**
 * **Finding one exception does not imply a family.**
 * **Consistency is not proof. A suggestive coincidence is a coincidence until