A hand count is marked

Claim: a count taken by hand is marked as such in the page, listed row by row in a file, and equal to the tally the results record.

• Grade: convention, the maintainer's practice, written down for the review; no study tests it.
• Evidence: baseline, the rule added to the checklist. Where: position, condition 3.
• Check: case-hand-counts (exact): the page says by hand and links hand-counts.csv, and the tally of the file equals the results.
• Reader styles: none particular to this genre yet; the reader-ergonomics styles hold.

What it asks

• A number a program cannot take, such as the questions that reached a person, is counted by a reader.
• The page marks it with the words by hand and names its reader.
• The folder holds hand-counts.csv with one row per item, its kind and where it came from.
• The tally of the file's kind column is the one the results file records.

Why

• A count by hand is a claim; a count by a program is a check. The reader must see which is which.
• A row-by-row list lets a second reader recount, which the first case could not offer.

Limits

• The check compares tallies; it cannot say that a row is right.
• One reader, no second check, is the usual state; the case says so in its Data and procedure.