{"id":214,"date":"2026-10-17T21:49:02","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T21:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aberdeendream.com\/?page_id=214"},"modified":"2026-10-17T22:40:32","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T22:40:32","slug":"publications","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.aberdeendream.com\/index.php\/publications\/","title":{"rendered":"Publications"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Research you can check<\/h2>\n<p>Our publications follow one rule: every claim carries a reference. We publish research, guides, and public templates as open documents, because a community interest company that asks for trust must show its sources.<\/p>\n<p>When we read a study on your behalf, we ask three questions before we pass it on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Who funded it?<\/strong> Funding does not automatically invalidate research, but it shifts the burden of proof and must be disclosed.<\/li>\n<li><strong>How was it designed?<\/strong> The sample, the definitions of outcomes, and the methodology itself can quietly predetermine the conclusion.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Has it been replicated?<\/strong> An independent repetition of the result is the only real confirmation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>What we publish<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Open-source research and reports<\/strong> &mdash; thorough, referenced, and honest about what is not yet known.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Public templates<\/strong> &mdash; letters and documents citizens can copy and use in their own dealings with public bodies.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Educational material<\/strong> &mdash; supporting the professional education of young people in Aberdeen, with open tools and open hardware such as Arduino and Raspberry Pi.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pro-civic competition documentation<\/strong> &mdash; rules, results, and lessons from competitions that reward community-minded technical work.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Scotland is included in our research wherever the data allows; where Scottish data is unavailable, we say so plainly.<\/p>\n<p>To suggest a topic or request a template, please visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aberdeendream.com\/index.php\/in-touch-2\/\">In touch<\/a> page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research you can check Our publications follow one rule: every claim carries a reference. We publish research, guides, and public templates as open documents, because a community interest company that asks for trust must show its sources. When we read a study on your behalf, we ask three questions before we pass it on: Who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-214","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aberdeendream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aberdeendream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aberdeendream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aberdeendream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aberdeendream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.aberdeendream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228,"href":"https:\/\/www.aberdeendream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/214\/revisions\/228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aberdeendream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}