🔎 The art room, from above
👁️ Read the four stories →
🔎 The art room, from above
👁️ Read the four stories →
How are you feeling?
Four accounts, one event — how to read across them
- 🤝 Agree. Two people who could both see it say the same thing — that’s corroboration, the strongest evidence you can get.
- ⚔️ Can’t both be true. Two people claim different values for the same detail — at most one is right, so the detail is in dispute.
- 🙈 Couldn’t see. A narrator claims something they had no view of — that’s a guess, not evidence, even if it happens to be right.
- 🧩 The fifth account. Drop the guesses; keep what two real witnesses agree on. That settled set is what we can actually conclude.
Ages 15–18: the same rule works on history. Weigh the sources in ProvenanceQuest → (who was there, and who only heard it later).
Meet the crew — four ways of seeing
Ravi stood at the window bench, facing the window and the coat hooks — a clear view of who opened the window and the colour of the coat.
Mei was by the coat hooks near the side door, her back to the window — she saw the coat and which door everyone left by.
Sam watched from the hall doorway — he saw the door and heard the crash, but the coat was too far to make out.
Nella was painting in the far corner, facing the wall — she could only hear the hall, so everything else she says is a guess.
Lens is the calm reader who never asks “who’s telling the truth?” — only “who could actually see it, and do they agree?”
😄 Brain break
What next? Pick a door
- More like this CircleQuest Which reading job will you take? SproutForge Who are you writing this for? LexiTales Which word scores the most here?
- A bit harder TongueQuest Which family saying will you keep? TagLineForge Can you say it in seven words? FidelityForge Which summary is faithful to the source?
- Something different ZettelForge Which ideas belong together? SortTales Which sort is fastest for this list? ImprovQuest Can you say “yes, and…”?