Corrections
Last updated 24 October 2026
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Found something wrong? Email [email protected] with the figure and, if you have it, the source document. Replies aim to arrive within one business day. If it is an error, the dataset is fixed, the correction is noted here, and it is carried in the next issue. A number is never quietly edited.
How a correction is handled
- Check it against the source. Every record links to the document it came from, so the first question is always whether the document was copied wrongly or the document itself changed.
- Classify it. A correction is an Incentive Radar mistake. A revision is the state changing its own published figure. The dataset follows the source and keeps the old value in the time series so the change stays visible. A clarification is a figure that was right but described in a way that could mislead.
- Fix and disclose. The dataset is corrected, an entry is added to the log below, and the correction appears in the next issue’s corrections block. Every issue carries that block, even when it is empty.
- Prevent it. Where a mistake points at a weakness in how something is parsed or checked, the check changes, not just the number.
The log
| Date | Where | What was wrong | What changed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-24 | Home page and the FY 2025–26 report (/california-2025-26) | Showed fiscal 2025–26 as 159 projects and $1.56 billion. The state had removed 15 projects from its list, and those removals were still counted. | Removed projects now drop out of the totals. The pages show 144 validated projects, $1.52 billion and 6,284 planned filming days (the state’s list on 22 October: 146 projects, $1.52 billion; two rows are still in validation). The project-type and top-company tables were recalculated the same way. |
| 2026-09-25 | Home page and first short-form video | Presented 29 verified California records in a way that could read as California’s full approved-projects list. It was a verified slice of a list that runs to hundreds of projects. | Reworded the site the same day to say plainly that it was a starting slice, not the state’s total. Added a check that any “top N” figure must state the total it is drawn from before it can be published or rendered. |
Issues sent to subscribers so far: 8 October 2026 (“A quiet week on California’s list, and what fiscal 2025–26 holds”) and 15 October 2026 (“California allocates $344.6M in new film credits for FY 2026–27”). Each carried a corrections block, and neither has needed a correction. Their fiscal 2025–26 totals (156 projects, $1.51 billion) reflect the state’s list as it stood when each issue was built. The state has revised the list since then, which counts as a revision, not a correction, and the next issue carries the current figures. This log started before the first issue on purpose: it is easier to keep an honest record from the beginning than to start one after the first mistake.
Standing commitments
- Every issue carries a corrections block, even when it is empty.
- A correction is never made silently.
- If a wrong figure ran for a whole billing period and you relied on it, you can have that period refunded — see the refund policy.
- The method is published as well as the numbers, so anyone can find an error: see Methodology & Sources.