See the reasoning.
Ask the right questions.
A shortlist is useful when your team can understand the evidence behind it. Reasons, gaps and uncertainty belong alongside each candidate.
Follow the evidence.
Inspect the sources that support a candidate, the reasons for its position and the questions that remain open.
Read a sample brief ↗Keep the decision in context.
Your research question and next investigation define what matters. A shortlist supports your experts’ review and their choice of what to investigate next.
Agree what a useful
result should show.
Begin with a defined candidate pool and an appropriate comparison. Agree the measures before the work, then review the findings, misses and limitations together.
- A clear question
The decision, candidate pool and shortlist size set the scope.
- Traceable sources
Source references and recorded uncertainty make the reasoning easier to inspect.
- An agreed comparison
Evaluate the result against measures selected for your research question.
- Expert review
Your team assesses the evidence and decides what follows.