How Gear Up to Grow Handles Numbers and Claims
Evidence status: this register distinguishes published research, site-reported observations, illustrative examples, and claims awaiting verification. Earlier versions described all claims as sourced and some observations as verified internal tests; those blanket assurances were not justified. Reviewing a CSV proves what its columns contain, not how its observations were collected. We are not a clinic or a clinical research laboratory.
1. What we cite, and how
Our standard is a source at the point of a material claim. A source should support the specific finding, population, and outcome described. A link to an organization homepage or research database is not enough to verify a numerical effect. Older pages still contain claims requiring review; this register is not certification of the entire site.
Published research belongs to its named authors. Preliminary, animal, observational, and controlled human findings have different limitations. Avoid turning any of them into a guaranteed personal outcome.
2. Claim register: checked arithmetic and unresolved provenance
The table records previously published claims and their stated origins. Except where a check is explicitly described, source attribution and provenance remain unverified in this review. Describing something as an internal test is not proof that the test occurred. Rows retained for review must not be read as endorsements.
| Where the figure appears | What we reported | Sample & method | How to treat it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daily affirmations guide | Earlier summary: 6.2 → 2.9. Current CSV column means: approximately 6.31 → 3.15. | Available CSV: 27 data rows; self-assessed ratings, labeled unvalidated. | Arithmetic checked September 17, 2026. The old averages do not match this file. Recruitment, data collection, and participant provenance have not been independently verified. The revised affirmations article no longer uses these figures as evidence of effectiveness. |
| Habits hub FAQ (journaling & cortisol) | ~23% lower salivary cortisol after 10 days of evening journaling | n=71 volunteers using consumer saliva test strips; no control group | Pilot signal only. Consumer strips have wide error bars. Published expressive-writing research is the better anchor. |
| Journaling benefits guide | “Higher weekly task completion after two weeks” | Small internal test group; unblinded, self-tracked task counts | Directional at best. Replicate with your own tracker before acting on it. |
| Journaling benefits guide (marketing example) | CTA CTR +18%, opt-in +22%, revenue +$7,400 on a webinar landing page | One 26-day A/B split on a single landing page (n = that page’s traffic) | A single-case marketing result. Included as a worked example, not a benchmark. |
| Energy boost guide | “73% of 2,847 participants showed 18% cortisol reduction by 10 AM” | Previously described here as an illustrative composite, not a study we ran or can substantiate with participant-level data. | Do not cite this as an observed result. The energy article has been rewritten without this claim. This correction does not certify that every other article has been cleared of it. |
| Conscious practice guide | “From 1,300 users, 73% report stress-language shifts within 7 days” | Illustrative composite, not an audited dataset | Treat as an illustrative example. |
| Reward guide (awe) | Awe experiences and amygdala/cytokine changes (n=62) | Figure belongs to the cited UC Berkeley imaging study — verify at the citation, not here | Third-party research; we are only the messenger. |
| Sleep/burnout guides (prevalence & risk multipliers, e.g. 8–12×) | Comorbidity percentages and risk multipliers | Drawn from the epidemiological sources cited inline in those guides | Third-party research; check the inline citations. |
3. Supplement and product claims
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4. Corrections
September 17, 2026: corrections made
- Corrected the affirmation CSV summary and kept the existing download accessible.
- Marked the participant-count cortisol claim as unsuitable for citation as an observed result.
- Removed unsupported dosing, diagnostic thresholds, and performance promises from the energy guide.
- Replaced unsupported neuroscience and business-result claims in the daily affirmations guide with examples and a copyable worksheet.
The research-data register provides the available CSV arithmetic and its limits. Remaining cohort, marketing, imaging, and risk-multiplier claims in this table require their original sources before reuse. No independent clinical or statistical validation is claimed.
If you find a number that isn’t sourced, or a citation that doesn’t say what we said it says, tell us and we will fix or retract it. Our review process describes how articles are checked before publication.
5. Who writes this
Articles are written and reviewed in-house by the editor. We are journalists/writers by trade, not clinicians: no one on this site holds a medical license, and we claim no institutional affiliation. For medical decisions, use the cited primary sources and a qualified clinician.