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| # | Title | Summary | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| CASE-053 | Contextuality tests on human meaning and judgement data: a held null, and positive results that miss pragmatic content or power | The published tests of contextuality proper on elicited human judgements, read together. The null that meets every condition is the record’s own LIT-264: attitudinal and lexical data, none contextual under Contextuality-by-Default. Wang’s thesis adds a Bell-type null on meaning judgements. The positive results miss a condition: Cervantes and Dzhafarov’s “Snow Queen” is contextual with high reliability but its content is instructed attribute matching, and Lo, Sadrzadeh and Mansfield’s Winograd schemas have the right content but a violation of about one standard deviation. No contextual pragmatic data are documented; “none in behavioural data” is too broad. | Active |
| CASE-065 | Two satisfaction questions in German and in a back-translated Chinese version: an order effect that reverses across a rendering, with the Clinton–Gore poll as the scale of the 2ε bound | Haberstroh, Oyserman, Schwarz, Kühnen and Ji (2002), Experiment 2, asked German and Chinese students the same two satisfaction questions, in a back-translated Chinese version, in both orders. The part–whole correlation depends on order in the German administration and reverses in the Chinese one, and the authors explain it by a pragmatic mechanism. Only correlations are reported, so the case shows the bound’s contrapositive in kind, not in number. Moore’s Clinton–Gore poll, held through LIT-834, supplies the number: an order effect of total variation about 0.095, against a sampling floor of about 0.03 per order at poll sizes, so 2ε is about as large as the effect it would certify. | Active |
| CASE-068 | Risk messages passed down diffusion chains: the evaluative signal kept and amplified while the content decays (Moussaïd, Brighton and Gaissmaier; Jagiello and Hills) | In two serial-reproduction experiments on risk messages, each link’s message was coded for content and, on a separate scheme, for the evaluative stance of its statements toward the hazard. Content got shorter, less accurate and more divergent; the evaluative signal survived and drifted negative, and re-exposure to the balanced source did not undo the drift. The transmitters’ own risk perception, measured by questionnaire, predicts the direction of the change. Documented chain evidence for evaluative stance; none for footing. | Active |
| CASE-070 | Voita, Sennrich and Titov’s BLEU-tied translation systems that differ on keeping ты or вы across sentences | Two English-to-Russian subtitle translation systems score the same BLEU (32.40 and 32.38, not significantly different). On a contrastive test built from held-out films, which asks whether a system keeps the T or V form of “you” consistent across sentences, one is at chance (50.0%) and the other is right in 81.6% of cases. A documented instance, on a pragmatic distinction, of two realizations equal under a standard probe family and different under an independently built one. An ML paper that neither record holds. | Active |
| CASE-071 v2 | Kovacs, Deutsch and Freitag’s metric bias in MBR decoding: translations a metric selects, that the metric and its neighbours rate better and human raters do not | Minimum Bayes risk and quality-estimation decoding pick, from 128 sampled translations, the one a neural metric scores best. That metric and other neural metrics rate the picks significantly better than greedy decoding; human MQM raters find them no better, and for four system and language-pair combinations significantly worse. CASE-041’s result in text, by selection rather than training. The distinction lost is accuracy, not a pragmatic one; a stipulated English-to-Russian ты/вы variant states the design that would make it pragmatic. | Active |
| CASE-136 v3 | The doorway effect: memory for an object carried through a doorway into another room is worse than after walking as far within one, returning to the first room does not restore it, and outside the original laboratory’s set-up the effect has not always appeared | The owner’s case at U37 of the branch of the exchange of 2026-10-22, offered as one the record’s account of perspective and grounding may at least partly explain. Reported studies, read here from their abstracts: an effect of event boundaries on accessibility, attributed to updating or to interference among event models, and replications that fail. Not shown: that the effect is robust, or that the record’s account explains it better than event cognition already does. | Active |
| CASE-147 v2 | Conversation against argument: in Kalla and Broockman’s field experiments, canvassers who exchanged personal narratives nonjudgmentally reduced exclusionary attitudes durably, while arguments alone did not produce comparable effects | Cited at A4 of the exchange of 2026-10-22, “Ben Franklin Effect Explained”, as “suggestive evidence” for the prediction that cooperative enactment changes attitudes more durably than information. Kalla and Broockman (2020, LIT-1407), registered unread; the description is the exchange’s and the abstract’s, unchecked against the paper. The standing is the study’s, not the reading’s. | Active |
| CASE-149 | Dancing to the same or different music, seen or unseen: in dyads facing each other, shared music and visual contact were removed independently, and each synchronized different movements of the pair | Bigand et al. (2024), LIT-1424, read in NOTE-1093. Filed from the owner’s exchange “Framework Overview Request” of 2026-10-23 as an external result meeting part of the aim of the proposed study CASE-045. In 35 dyads, shared music and visual contact were varied in a 2 × 2 design; each raised synchrony in different movement components, with no interaction, and the timing of the synchrony could not tell the two apart. Not shown: the direction of coupling, a perturbation response, or anything about trained partner dancing with touch. | Active |
| CASE-150 v2 | Economic alignment and political alignment: Kleinman, Liu and Redding find, using China’s integration into the world economy and falling air-transport costs as sources of variation, that countries whose welfare becomes more dependent on each other’s productivity become more politically aligned | Cited at A6 of the exchange of 2026-10-22, “Ben Franklin Effect Explained”, after the owner’s U6 on trade and peace, as “a paper that makes the connection almost literally”. Kleinman, Liu and Redding (2024, LIT-1416), registered unread; the description is the exchange’s and the abstract’s. The standing is the study’s, not the reading’s. | Active |