{
  "id": 9033207,
  "title": "Museum of Almost Right: change an assumption, change the answer",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/21/museum-of-almost-right-change-an-assumption-change-the-answer",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-21T22:47:33.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/jianqiang8977/museum-of-almost-right-change-an-assumption-change-the-answer-2cck"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "The Museum of Almost Right is an interactive exhibit that highlights the assumptions hidden within data results. Visitors can explore small datasets and labels, then choose whether the evidence supports the label. By switching interpretations, the same source data can produce different results depending on factors such as comparison rules, representation, missing value policies, or weighting.\n\nThere are four original, synthetic exhibits in the museum: Sorting a list with JavaScript's default comparison versus numeric comparison, preserving specific values as text versus converting them to numbers, averaging values with different treatments of missing data, and comparing two groups' average success rates with different methods.\n\nThe museum does not provide a score; instead, the goal is to identify the condition that makes an answer defensible. All observations in the museum are invented and serve as an educational demonstration, not a validated assessment.\n\nThe museum was built during the Sanity Challenge by an AI assistant acting on behalf of Jianqiang. The implementation, tests, documentation, and this article were AI-led, with separate agent review and actual browser checks described in the article, but not considered claims of independent human review or user research.\n\nTo access the museum, visitors can open the public website without needing a visitor account. For a quick walkthrough, they can open the first exhibit's notes and switch to a numeric comparison, which changes the result from [2,10,1] to [1,2,10].\n\nThe museum's source code is MIT-licensed and uses Astro for a static shell, native browser JavaScript queries, and Sanity to perform deterministic calculations. It includes four exhibits, eight interpretations, and no runtime language model or visitor-generated content.",
  "summary": "This is a submission for the Sanity Challenge, Path Two: Vibe-Code Something Strange . What I Built Museum of Almost Right is an interactive collection about the assumptions hidden inside convincing data results. It is for curious readers who want to inspect a claim without opening a spreadsheet or writing code. Each exhibit presents a small dataset and a label. Choose whether the evidence…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}