Quarex Evaluate just got a major refresh
Hi —
Big batch of upgrades to Quarex Evaluate went live this week. Here’s what’s new.
9 new books closing real coverage gaps
We ran a 145-question audit through Evaluate last week to find where the library was thin. Then we built the answer:
- Modern Psychiatry: Diagnosis, Drugs, and the Mental Health Debate — DSM reliability, the SSRI/placebo debate, adult ADHD overdiagnosis, treatment-resistant depression, psychedelic therapy, the chemical-imbalance story
- Modern Macroeconomics: Inflation, Money, and Productivity — inflation, MMT, the 2008 crisis, Phillips curve, fiscal vs. monetary policy
- Empirical Labor Economics — Card-Krueger on minimum wage, the Borjas-Card immigration debate, AI displacement, the productivity-wage gap
- Comparative Democratic Backsliding — Hungary, Turkey, Poland, India, Venezuela, the V-Dem framework
- Voter Behavior and Electoral Systems — ranked-choice voting, gerrymandering, what voters actually want
- Government Trust Decline: Data and Causes — 70 years of the Pew/ANES trust series and what’s driving the drop
- Modern Cosmology: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Multiverse — including the 2024 DESI results that may upend the standard model
- Adversarial AI and Synthetic Media — deepfakes, voice clones, election interference 2016–2026, C2PA provenance, the EU AI Act
- Presidential Powers and Constitutional Limits — Article II in doctrine and practice, from the pardon power to the 2024 Trump v. United States immunity decision
Two previously empty Evaluate categories — Economics & Finance and U.S. Constitutional Law — now have real coverage.
AI questions now work properly
Some of you may have noticed that AI questions in Evaluate were returning irrelevant sources. Turns out the search index was treating “AI” as too short a word to index — so queries with bare “AI” were silently losing the AI signal. We rewrote those questions to use “Artificial Intelligence,” and the retrieval is now sharp. Try “Is Artificial General Intelligence inevitable?” or “Will Artificial Intelligence eliminate large numbers of jobs?” — the bibliography now pulls from the right books.
Every Evaluation includes a bibliography — use it
We added a small reminder to the Evaluate page: every evaluation includes a bibliography of the specific chapters that backed each part of the answer. That bibliography is the point. The evaluation gives you the framing; the chapters give you the depth. Click through and read the underlying topics.
That’s the difference between Quarex Evaluate and a freeform AI answer: Quarex shows you where its claims come from, and lets you go deeper.
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Library now stands at
| 1,052 books |
8,000 chapters |
| 51,778 topic-questions |
108 shelves across 38 libraries |
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— Peter Nehl
quarex.org
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