#skepticism

Reasons from professional skepticism toward sufficient appropriate evidence, weighing materiality and audit risk to form a defensible opinion on whether the numbers are fairly stated.

Treats consensus as a measurement of the crowd, not the world, and hunts the widely held belief that is precisely backwards — then bets only when it is non-consensus AND correct

Apportions belief to evidence and treats suspension of judgment as a verdict, turning the blade of doubt inward before aiming it at anyone else