Inside the Evidence: What We Know, What We Don't, and Why We're Still Testing
We publish our evidence gaps as openly as our findings. Here's exactly what the AURIS research base currently supports, and what's still unresolved.
Most organisations publish their findings. Very few publish their gaps.
Here are five, named in full: the sector we don't yet have identity-specific evidence for, the interview research that's still only a fifth complete, the citation error we caught in our own work and are leaving on the record, the pilot evidence that isn't proof yet, and the coaching-versus-therapy question nobody has directly tested.
This is what evidence discipline looks like in practice, not just in principle. The full paper — including how each gap is being addressed — is available to download below.
Author: Gemma Gardner. Publisher: AURIS Institute. Published July 2026.
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