# Study 000C Audit

## Structural audit

- Pass: the package is self-contained and reads only from bundled source tables.
- Pass: the package includes manuscript, methods, results, discussion, limitations, plain-language summary, submission guidance, appendix, figures, outputs, and manifest.
- Pass: the package includes direct computed outputs rather than prose-only interpretation.

## Scientific audit

- Pass: the study asks a distinct question from 000A, 000B, and 000AB.
- Pass: the study uses the full corrected ecosystem rather than a subset of prior claims.
- Pass: the new content is real and quantified, especially the hidden GPS-bearing hybrid cardio layer.
- Pass: the program-level conclusion becomes more precise without discarding the existing flagship findings.

## Residual cautions

- The study remains descriptive.
- It depends on Garmin summarized-activity reconstruction for the hybrid-cardio layer.
- It tightens the full-data story but still does not produce an external comparator.

## Audit verdict

`Study 000C` is structurally sound and scientifically useful as the exhaustive full-data program pass. Its main value is not replacing the earlier studies. Its value is proving that the corrected whole dataset still supports the core program while forcing the ecology interpretation to become more exact.