DQR Institute's research is built in the open: the validation of the standard against an accruing record of assessed decisions, and the intellectual foundation the standard formalizes.
A rating means something only if it tracks reality. That evidence is built, not asserted — and validation is the active frontier, not a finished claim.
The measurement categories the validation record tracks — prediction-versus-outcome variance, calibration drift, rating-to-outcome correlation, and more. Categories, not asserted results.
The book that sets out the principles the standard formalizes: a serious decision is a hypothesis about reality, and its quality can be judged before its outcome is known.
Read the methodology in full, or join the founding participants helping build the body of independently rated decisions.