fact finding
Searching for truth
Fact finding is the process of gathering information to establish what actually happened or what conditions exist.
It often precedes decision-making or formal proceedings: The committee conducted a fact-finding mission before drafting the report.
A fact-finding trip or investigation aims to collect firsthand evidence rather than rely on secondhand accounts.
- investigationFormal examination of facts
- inquiryRequest for information
- congressional inquiryLegislative body's formal investigation
- probeThorough examination or tool
- researchSystematic fact-finding effort
deep dive · detective · evidence · smoking gun · paper trail · discovery · interrogation · witness · testimony · interview · digging · uncovering · sleuthing · truth · truth seeking · audit · examination · report
- discoverydiscovery, discover, uncovering, unearthing, unearth
- labor relationslabor relations, labor disputes, collective agreement, union elections, bargaining
- questsquest, seeking, main quest, searching, side quest
- jury trialjury deliberation, jury selection, juror selection, voir dire, jury pool
- labor strikeswalkouts, walkout, picket lines, strike action, coal strike
- trial runstest, trial run, test run, dry run, tryout
fact findingspeculation
Unproven theorizing or risky investment
guessing · conjecture · assumption · supposition · theorizing
fact findingcover-up
Hiding wrongdoing from public
concealment · obfuscation · suppression · disinformation · falsification
fact findingprejudgment
Opinion formed beforehand
preconception · bias · dogmatism · closed-mindedness · rush to judgment
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