WNBA veteran players need their physical defense judged by the same standard against every opponent. 0.50

Value: Fairness · Used on: Opposing players have targeted Caitlin Clark with harder and more frequent physical play than other rookies and stars receive.

Measured by	Fines and suspensions for contact involving Clark compared with fines and suspensions for similar contact involving other players.
Belief Y	Opposing players have targeted Caitlin Clark with harder and more frequent physical play than other rookies and stars receive.	Truth 0.50

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	Penalties involving Clark rise because the contact really is worse.
2	If the belief is false, the measure should show	Penalties involving Clark rise even though the contact is the same, which is a double standard.
3	Latest reading (with source)
4	Basic test: do the two sides expect different readings?	Yes: the readings differ, so this interest is at stake in the belief.
5	Computed validity	0.50 from 0 reason(s) to agree and 0 to disagree
6	Bottom line, typed by the author after the tables above	Veterans like Diana Taurasi have said the league was always this physical; their interest is in not being punished for a style that predates Clark.

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
Opposing players have targeted Caitlin Clark with harder and more frequent physical play than other rookies and stars receive.	costs and benefits	who gains or pays	0.50
Opposing players have targeted Caitlin Clark with harder and more frequent physical play than other rookies and stars receive.	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 1639 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 WNBA veteran players need their physical defense judged by the same standard against every opponent. Idea Stock Exchange, interest page wnba-veteran-players-need, 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: wnba-veteran-players-need.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.