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| # | Title | Summary | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| CASE-052 | Stokely Carmichael’s two speaking styles, kept apart by audience and collapsed by broadcast | As boyd (2008) reports it after Meyrowitz (1985: 43): the civil rights leader Stokely Carmichael used very different rhetorical styles with black and with white audiences. While the audiences were separate the two styles did not conflict. Television and radio put both audiences in front of one speech, there was no neutral style, and his choice of one alienated the other audience. The roles did not change. The cover did. | Active |
| CASE-054 v2 | Joking relationships: one kind among the Crow and in Africa with no route between them, descended between Crow and Hidatsa, and a transported tale beside them | Radcliffe-Brown defined the joking relationship as one comparative kind and placed the Crow joking-relative and Dogon and Thonga joking in it; no historical route joins the Crow to West or South-East Africa. Lowie records the same institution among the Hidatsa, a division of the Crow’s parent tribe, and Tehrani’s phylogeny confirms an Ibo “Little Red Riding Hood” as an oral translation of the European tale. Kind without transport, kind with descent, and a transport, on documented material, for CLAIM-210. Partial: independence is a fact of geography no source states, and the kind is an analyst’s. | 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-078 v2 | Who keeps placing on r/place: the proposed survival analysis of the released placement logs, testing whether participants return while their art survives and whether unaffiliated placement cools | Proposed by the owner on 2026-10-13, not run. On the released 2017, 2022 and 2023 logs, model each participant’s hazard of stopping, with the survival of the art they placed into as a time-varying covariate, and estimate the rate of placements that fit no artwork over the event. The main threat is reverse causality: persistent defenders keep their art alive. So the design leans on destruction the participant did not cause, such as the 2022 moderator wipes and large raids. It is the test named in CLAIM-274’s defeater. | Active |
| CASE-103 v2 | A fanbase keeps a reputation, for hostility or loyalty or knowledge, after the behaviour that earned it has changed, and outsiders and members both act on it | From U2 of the exchange of 2026-10-16. A2 separated three things that vary independently: many members have the trait; others believe the fanbase has it; that belief shapes how the fanbase behaves. A reputation belongs to a fanbase through its relations with audiences, and it can enter the process that produces its own evidence. It is a case for regulative attribution (THEORY-137, QUESTION-049) beyond mental states. Stipulated; it shows no particular reputation was self-fulfilling. | Active |
| CASE-127 v2 | United 173 and Crew Resource Management: a crew whose concern about the fuel did not reach the captain as a demand to act, and the training that followed, which asked for participative captains and assertive crews | The owner’s case at U25 of the exchange of 2026-10-22: “the history underlying the evolution of Crew Resource Management”. A cockpit had the information and lacked the organization to make it govern. The reform changed the organization of authority, not its holder. Not shown: that CRM caused the later fall in accidents, which the case does not test. | Active |
| CASE-130 v2 | Gracie jiu-jitsu against luta livre: two Brazilian grappling traditions whose contests were fought over the rules as well as under them, and whose matches placed them in a racial hierarchy as well as ranking them by results | The owner’s case at U35 of the exchange of 2026-10-22: contemporaneous, geographically related schools of martial arts vying for regional, ideological, demographic and physical dominance. A35 and A36 took the Gracie–luta livre rivalry, from Penglase (LIT-1391). It is the record’s first martial-arts material. Not shown: which tradition was technically better, which the case is evidence against asking in general; and the historical particulars, which are the replies’ summary of an unread source. | Active |
| CASE-133 v2 | American party realignment: each major party kept its name and organizational continuity across the twentieth century while its coalition and its stance on civil rights changed, and the change began in state parties, unions and constituencies before it reached national leaders | The owner’s case at U29 and U30 of the exchange of 2026-10-22, in the replies’ corrected form. A party is a carrier; its coalition and character can change while the carrier persists, and an orientation can move between carriers. Not shown: that the parties swapped perspectives, or that any present party continues a historical one’s character, which are the owner’s U29 framings the replies declined. | Active |
| CASE-139 | Chinese martial traditions through the Cultural Revolution: practices restricted, teachers persecuted and teaching driven underground, then after 1978 a reconstruction of Shaolin martial arts through heritage policy and tourism in which local practitioners and authorized institutions dispute who carries the tradition | The owner’s case at U37 of the branch of the exchange of 2026-10-22: the “(various) perspectival interruption(s) caused by the Chinese Cultural Revolution”, near the record’s martial-arts material (CASE-130). A case family, not one example: skills that survived in bodies while teaching became dangerous; practices that persisted under a different organization of authority; survival in marginal carriers; and a reconstruction that became a source of authenticity. Not shown: what was continuous and what was rebuilt, which is the question it raises. | Active |
| CASE-140 | The attributed self: two people with similar dispositions hear the same negative characterization, one told it comes from a few critics and the other believing it speaks for nearly everyone who matters to them, so that the words are fixed and only their attributed breadth differs | A39’s proposed test of the imagined audience, in the exchange of 2026-10-22, filed at the owner’s request. It holds the content of a judgement fixed and varies only the social authority the hearer attributes to it. A39: “These cases distinguish the content of a judgment from the social authority attributed to it.” As stipulated it predicts nothing; run with real people, it would test CLAIM-415. | Active |
| CASE-141 v2 | The label that confirms itself: a pupil wrongly labelled disruptive is watched more closely, ordinary conduct is read as misconduct, the pupil’s frustration produces real misconduct, and the label looks justified in hindsight | A39’s second reading of “I am whatever you say I am”, in the exchange of 2026-10-22, filed at the owner’s request with its variant CASE-142. An attribution can produce the conduct that later seems to justify it, through the institution’s response to the attribution, not through the pupil’s coming to believe it. Not shown: how often labels work this way; A39: “That’s a possible self-fulfilling process, not a universal consequence of stigmatizing labels.” | Active |
| CASE-142 v2 | The label confirmed by resistance: a critic calls someone hostile, the person answers the characterization angrily, and the critic cites the anger as proof, so the judgement is confirmed by the response of someone who rejects it | A39’s third reading of “I am whatever you say I am”, in the exchange of 2026-10-22, filed at the owner’s request as a variant of CASE-141. What differs is the route: the judgement is rejected, not absorbed, and the rejection is what confirms it. A39: “Here an interpretive regime partially manufactures the evidence it uses to justify itself.” Not shown: that resistance always confirms; the person can also answer the judgement without the answer being read as evidence for it. | Active |
| CASE-143 v2 | Franklin’s borrowed book: Benjamin Franklin, opposed by a new member of the Pennsylvania Assembly when he stood again as its clerk, asked to borrow a rare book from him rather than courting him, returned it with thanks, and found the man civil and later a friend | The owner’s U1 of the exchange of 2026-10-22, “Ben Franklin Effect Explained”, read at U2 as a “perspectival invitation”. Documented in Franklin’s Autobiography (LIT-1402; the passage was read in the Project Gutenberg text on 2026-10-23), and the origin of the “Ben Franklin effect”, that doing someone a favour can increase liking for them, tested by Jecker and Landy (LIT-1419). The standing is the anecdote’s, as Franklin told it; the reading is the exchange’s. | Active |
| CASE-146 | Two friendships across a group line: in one, the friend becomes an exception and the person’s view of the friend’s group is unchanged; in the other, what happens with the friend changes how the person takes other members of the group, though the friendships are alike in warmth and in what each learns | From the exchange of 2026-10-22, “Ben Franklin Effect Explained”, A4 and A5, on the owner’s U4 about intergroup contact. A4: “A prejudiced person can befriend a member of a targeted group while preserving their prejudice toward everyone else. They simply classify the friend as an exception.” A5 drew the two outcomes as “Exception formation” and “Category reorganization”. Held fixed: the friendship and its favourable information. Varied: whether the friend’s conduct is allowed to bear on the category. | 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 |