The Institute studies complex environments in which ordinary processes, incomplete records, instrument limitations, and genuinely unexplained observations may all be present at once. Its standards exist to keep those categories from bleeding into one another.
Inquiries must connect to specific observations. An investigation does not begin by asking whether an event confirms Alienism — it begins by asking what occurred, and how reliably it was observed.
Personnel record observations before attempting explanations, carefully distinguishing measurements from impressions. A statement that a room felt occupied may be worth preserving. It is not equivalent to a recorded change in temperature.
Findings gain credibility through independent verification — different personnel, separate equipment, independent calculations, or observation from another location.
Studies employ controls whenever the subject permits them, provided the control remains meaningfully comparable to the observation site.
Equipment is calibrated before deployment. Instrument error is an explanation only when an error capable of producing the observed result can be identified.
The Institute tests ordinary explanations first, but does not accept an ordinary explanation merely because it is ordinary. A finding is anomalous when observations remain inconsistent with expected conditions after relevant errors, ordinary variation, and known environmental causes have been examined.
The Director establishes the Institute's research standards and authorizes significant departures from normal procedure.
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