{"id":35455,"date":"2026-10-02T19:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T01:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesweat.com\/?page_id=35455"},"modified":"2026-10-02T19:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T01:14:09","slug":"methodology","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thesweat.com\/?page_id=35455","title":{"rendered":"Methodology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every Sweat story starts with a real event and real people. This page explains how we approach them.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Real stories<\/h2><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We cover true events only. No fiction, no embellishment. If we can&#8217;t support a detail, we leave it out.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Researched and sourced<\/h2><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We combine storytelling with data, context and analysis to go deeper than what happened. Every story lists its sources at the end so you can check our work and read further.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Probabilities, explained<\/h2><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When we show an odds or probability figure, we say what it means, where it comes from and when it was captured. Probabilities describe uncertainty; they are not guarantees and they are not advice.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why it matters<\/h2><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We care less about the headline than the stakes: what was on the line, and what we can learn from the people who took the risk.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How The Sweat researches, sources and presents its stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-35455","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesweat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesweat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesweat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesweat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesweat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesweat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesweat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}