R0002/2026-03-13/C007/H2

Research	R0002 — Research Standards for AI-Assisted Writing
Run	2026-03-13
Claim	C007
Hypothesis	H2

Statement

CONSORT exists and addresses RCT reporting, but the checklist does not contain exactly 25 items.

Status

Current: Supported

Supporting Evidence

Evidence	Summary
SRC02-E01	Current version has 30 items, not 25

Contradicting Evidence

Evidence	Summary
SRC01-E01	CONSORT 2010 did have exactly 25 items

Reasoning

H2 is supported for the current version of CONSORT. As of April 2025, CONSORT 2025 is the authoritative version with 30 items. It explicitly supersedes CONSORT 2010. An unversioned reference to "CONSORT" having 25 items is no longer accurate. H2 is the strongest hypothesis when the claim is read as a present-tense statement about the current standard.

Relationship to Other Hypotheses

Mutually exclusive with H1 for the current version. Both can be true if the claim is understood as version-specific (H1 true for 2010, H2 true for 2025).