05.1 - Epistemic Hygiene & Methodological Standards

Epistemic Hygiene & Methodological Standards (v0.1) defines the normative analysis discipline for Stability Biology. It provides a practical checklist for designing, analyzing, and reporting BSMI studies in a way that preserves commensurability, guards against overfitting, axis fishing, and narrative drift, and makes clear distinctions between exploratory and confirmatory work. This section sets mandatory expectations for QC transparency, contextual declaration, checkpoint awareness, and responsible use of stability axes and Ψ. It defines how results may be interpreted and claimed, not what data must exist or how it is encoded. 05.1 operates in coordination with MISTAB (05.2) and the Core Data Schema (05.3) and is normative for all public-facing materials claiming BSMI conformance.