Recording reasons and evidence makes arbitrary-action review more feasible.

Evidence

When supporting evidence and reasons are required to be, or in fact are recorded, then the issUteof arbirness vel non can be much more readily ested, 7llis is the significance, in part, of the increasingly widespread 16. — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process, 2898

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: A statutory statement-of-grounds requirement pressured an agency into developing reviewable decision criteria. — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process: Basic Problems in…, 2907; Debaters can demand written evidence instead of refuting unsourced claims themselves. — Holm Gero Hümmler, Ulrike Schiesser, Fact and Prejudice: How to Communicate…, 817; Desired conclusions retroactively validate whatever evidence seems to support them (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Decision-makers shape facts to retroactively justify an already-chosen course of action #complicates (0.80) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2316
• Debaters can demand written evidence instead of refuting unsourced claims themselves. #expands (0.78) — Holm Gero Hümmler, Ulrike Schiesser, Fact and Prejudice, 817
• Desired conclusions retroactively validate whatever evidence seems to support them #complicates (0.75)