How small adjustments hold a broken system together. Four linked maps: what people feel, the mechanisms that explain it, the encounters where it happens, and the records that measure it. Select any card to trace its chain across all four, or pick a propagation rule.
Read every encounter through gender and age: an older widow, a transgender applicant and a young job-seeker meet the same office differently. Phrases are a starting set across languages, to be checked with native speakers.
© 2026 Tailenders Analytics. Companion to Tailwinds Working Paper 2026-02, The Talisman Test. Literature anchors as listed in the paper; data sources are candidates for the empirical pass, and links between layers are the paper's hypotheses, to be tested.