Editorial Policy
Last updated: August 2026
ChronoCalc publishes free age-calculation tools and educational guides. We do not invent clinician identities, testimonials, star ratings, or usage statistics. Method claims are dated and described at a high level so they can be checked against the manuals you already own.
1. Who writes
Guides are published by the ChronoCalc editorial team as an independent educational project. We do not byline invented physicians, SLPs, or psychologists. If a credentialed clinician later co-authors a page, that person will be named on the page and on About with the same identity — we will not use anonymous first-person “clinic voice” as a substitute for a real byline.
2. What we will not publish
- Fabricated testimonials or review scores
- Unverifiable user counts (“thousands of clinicians,” “most trusted,” “#1”)
- Named practitioners we cannot identify
- Copyrighted test items, stimulus content, or scoring tables from Pearson, Curriculum Associates, or other publishers
- Review or AggregateRating structured data unless reviews are collected on this site
3. Calculation claims
Feature claims about ChronoCalc are checked against the live calculators before publication. Rounding and format rules are documented on the methodology page and in tool help text. When a publisher releases a new edition, we update clinical mode and the visible verification date.
4. Citations
We name instruments (WISC-V, WAIS-IV, BRIGANCE Early Childhood Screen III, CELF-5) and point to the corresponding administration or examiner manuals. Descriptions stay high-level. If you need the exact day-threshold or leap-year note for a score sheet, open the current manual for that edition.
5. AI assistance
Drafting tools may help with outlines or copy editing. Every published page is reviewed for calculation truthfulness. AI is not used to invent sources, quotes, clinics, or reviews.
6. Corrections
If a format, leap-year edge case, or publisher convention is wrong, email [email protected] or use the contact page. Material fixes get an updated date on the affected page.
7. Advertising
Some pages display Google ads. An advertiser does not review calculator copy, and we do not accept payment to change a rounding description, a generation label, or a clinical caveat. If an ad appears next to a guide, that placement is automatic. It is not an endorsement of the advertiser and not a statement that the advertiser checked the math.
Pages aimed at policy and support — privacy, terms, and contact — do not load the ad script. The privacy policy is the place that explains advertising cookies. Editorial standards on this page still apply on every URL that shows an ad.
We also do not add a page just to catch a misspelling, and we do not publish a calculator that claims to be a publisher’s official tool. Assessment names are descriptive. If a sentence would only be true with a user count, a star rating, or a clinician we cannot name, it does not ship. Corrections are dated on the page they change. A birth-year page may state two ages for the current year. It may not invent a single age from the year alone.
8. Dates you see on the site
“Last verified” lines and ages on birth-year pages are computed when the site is built, not live on every visit. A birth-year page states two possible ages for the current calendar year because a birthday may or may not have passed. Exact years, months, and days require the month and day, which the calculator on that page asks for. If a printed age looks one day off, check the verification line and run the calculator with today’s date.