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Interest
Undocumented immigrants who have lived in the United States for years, and their citizen children, need the legal status of millions of people already in the country resolved. 0.50
| Measured by |
Validity ArgumentsInterest scoring →
Reasons to agree that this need is real and legitimate
| # | Reason (pattern) | Truth | Conf | Link | Imp | Uniq | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nothing here yet. Starter patterns: Basic need, Asks no transfer from others, Widely held, Recognized in law. | |||||||
Reasons to disagree
| # | Reason (pattern) | Truth | Conf | Link | Imp | Uniq | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nothing here yet. Starter patterns: Claim on others' property or choices, Held by few, Pretext for another aim, Already met. | |||||||
Total agree 0.00 · total disagree 0.00 · interest score 0.50
An interest is a need, stated so it can be argued: "[who] need [what]". Reasons here are about whether the need is real and legitimate, never about whether the belief is true and never about how many people hold it.
Check table
| 1 | If the belief is true, the measure should show | |
| 2 | If the belief is false, the measure should show | |
| 3 | Latest reading (with source) | |
| 4 | Basic test: do the two sides expect different readings? | No: both sides expect the same reading, so this interest is not at stake in the belief. |
| 5 | Computed validity | 0.50 from 0 reason(s) to agree and 0 to disagree |
The five steps, answered from the pages above. Only the one-sentence bridge and the bottom line are typed.
DefinitionsThe full explanation →
- Validity: this page's truth score. It says how legitimate the need is in general, on its own. How much it drives a position is a different number (the Driver page), and how negotiable it is belongs on the feasibility track. Power never weights validity.
- Measured by (row 4) is what a reading of this interest looks like; the readings in the check table say what each side expects to see if the belief is true or false. Content, not scores.
Where This Page Is Used
| Page | Table | As | Its truth |
|---|---|---|---|
| America should reform its immigration laws. | interests | a row | 0.50 |
Every page that reads this one. One claim, one home, every use visible.
Scoring EngineTruth scores →
| Quantity | Value | How |
|---|---|---|
| Reasons to agree, total | 0.00 | sum of the agree side |
| Reasons to disagree, total | 0.00 | sum of the disagree side |
| Interest score | 0.50 | (agree + weight x starting point) / (agree + disagree + weight), starting point 0.50, weight 1.00 |
| ReasonRank | 0.0001 | how much of the site depends on this page: rank 1019 of 2173. The share of a walk that starts at the 162 beliefs and steps to the pages they read, with a 0.85 chance of stepping on each time |
| Work value | 0.0001 | ReasonRank x (1 - confidence): how much settling this page would be worth to everything above it |
| Completeness | no | at least one scored reason on each side (an importance page: at least one interest; an interest page: both readings filled) |
Cite this page Undocumented immigrants who have lived in the United States for years, and their citizen children, need the legal status of millions of people already in the country resolved. Idea Stock Exchange, interest page supporters-need-legal-status, truth 0.50, confidence 0%, revision 42c8344 of 2026-10-04. The revision is what makes this quotable: these numbers move as the argument is worked on, and rebuilding that revision reproduces them exactly.
Every number on this page as data: supporters-need-legal-status.json. Constants: K = 1 · UNARG = 0.5 · DEFLINK = 1 · DEFIMP = 0.5 · DEFUNIQ = 1. A reason placed under a conclusion is presumed relevant until a linkage page says otherwise; the burden is on the challenger. The neutral start for importance, the wiki's own rule.
Every value here is computed from the tables above at build time. Nothing is typed.