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19 of 371 QUESTION documents. Back to the full index.
| # | Title | Summary | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| QUESTION-041 v2 | When an organized whole’s operative course moves apart from what its members intend, what channels from the members keep that course correctable, and is losing them the loss of the whole’s capacity to transform its own organization? | Filed in the fourth synthesis pass to give readings no question asked for a place in the argument. It bears on CLAIM-030, CLAIM-025 and CLAIM-099. THEORY-149, THEORY-152 and THEORY-207 answer it in part; the body gives each one’s limit. | Open |
| QUESTION-066 | Does the way a course of action is held, under felt external control or for the agent’s own reasons, set how long it persists once outside support is removed, with the agent’s valuation of the activity held fixed? | Filed in the fourth synthesis pass to give readings no question asked for a place in the argument. It bears on CLAIM-027, CLAIM-122 and CLAIM-089. THEORY-046, THEORY-049, THEORY-154 and THEORY-077 answer it in part; the body gives each one’s limit. | Open |
| QUESTION-151 | Does the decoupling of reproducibility from convergence survive a consensus with memory, where a challenger must win repeatedly or evidence accumulates, and scientists can learn? | The promotion condition formerly on THEORY-295, moved here when THEORY-295 was narrowed to a consensus that a single test can replace and promoted on 2026-10-19 (ADR-047 v3). LIT-988 shows the decoupling only for a memoryless consensus and agents that do not learn. Whether a population that never pits the true model against the consensus still holds a reproducible false consensus once the consensus has memory is untested. | Open |
| QUESTION-169 | On a contested shared canvas, do lasting artworks as a population receive sustained overwrites and repairs, and does adding interaction features make coalition survival predictable early? | The promotion condition formerly on THEORY-216, moved here when THEORY-216 was narrowed to what Wu and Silva measured on the 2017 r/place log and promoted on 2026-10-19 (ADR-047 v3). LIT-1032 shows persistence under attack in ten illustrated lifecycles and low early predictability from four coalition-state features. How common the first is, and whether the second is in the dynamics or in the feature set, are untested. | Open |
| QUESTION-173 | Does the free-riding structure of truth-and-obstinacy debate survive with more than two debaters or with strategies richer than fixed, memoryless premise and conclusion rules? | The promotion condition formerly on THEORY-290, moved here when THEORY-290 was narrowed to the two-debater, three-proposition model it was computed in and promoted on 2026-10-19 (ADR-047 v3). LIT-966 finds that debaters who value true belief but pay to revise free-ride on one another’s bold arguments, in a model with two players and fixed, memoryless strategies. Whether the structure holds for groups, or for debaters who can target a partner’s false beliefs, is not shown. | Open |
| QUESTION-184 | Do real groups whose members update by averaging reach a settled estimate that moves away from the truth as the largest influence weight grows, as DeGroot’s model predicts? | Filed when the promotion audit (batch 036, ADR-047 v2) narrowed and promoted THEORY-321 to the theorem within DeGroot’s model for a strongly connected society. The former promote_when asked for a case outside the model; this question holds it, together with a check of the theorem for societies with several closed groups. | Open |
| QUESTION-210 | Does the QQ equality of survey question-order data hold in question pairs chosen in advance by investigators other than its proposers, and does a classical model with memory, constrained to satisfy it, fit the per-pair tables as well as the projection model? | The promotion condition formerly on THEORY-166. THEORY-166 was promoted on 2026-10-20 (ADR-047 v3) on what Wang, Solloway, Shiffrin and Busemeyer measured: across the 66 Pew surveys of 2001-2011 that varied the order of two back-to-back questions, order changed the answers but not the probability of agreeing answers. The pairs were chosen by the equality’s proposers’ team from one organisation’s archive, and no constrained classical rival was fitted. | Open |
| QUESTION-212 | Does a one-off random shock to a prediction-market price persist for weeks on other platforms and at real-money stakes, and do the traders come to believe the shocked price? | Filed when the promotion audit (batch 050, ADR-047 v3) narrowed and promoted THEORY-267 to what Rasooly and Rozzi measured on Manifold. The former promote_when asked for a second randomised experiment elsewhere, or a design that measures traders’ beliefs; this question holds it. | Open |
| QUESTION-257 v2 | When an organizational perspective stops being enacted, what distinguishes a temporary loss of activation, a loss of the conditions for enacting it, an interruption of its social reproduction, and irreversible loss or later reconstruction, and what survives when a practice survives but the arrangements that authorized, interpreted and reproduced it do not? | From the branch of the exchange of 2026-10-22: A37’s elevated question and A39’s wording for the record, from the owner’s U37 on the doorway effect and the Cultural Revolution. CLAIM-421 separates kinds of interruption. This asks how to tell them apart in a case, and what returns after one. | Open |
| QUESTION-261 | When most members of a group privately reject a norm that a vocal minority and widespread silence make look overwhelmingly supported, does correcting information about the actual distribution of opinion dissolve the apparent consensus, or has the public norm by then acquired an institutional force that no longer depends on anyone believing it is supported? | A39’s “nonexistent consensus”, in the exchange of 2026-10-22, filed at the owner’s request as a question, not a case, because the answer is empirical and open. It refines QUESTION-119 from the members’ side: not when credit is due to a population credited with a stance, but whether a stance credited to it, and then built on, outlives the discovery that the population never held it. | Open |
| QUESTION-262 v4 | When cooperation across a relation’s prevailing perspective changes how one party takes the other, does it change only the state of that party’s interpretive organization or also its coupling, how far outcomes may revise the governing interpretation, and can taking part be told experimentally from receiving information of equal favourable content? | From the exchange of 2026-10-22, “Ben Franklin Effect Explained”, A5: “One could ask whether a perspectival invitation changes only the initial state of the system, or also changes the coupling parameters”. It refines the first half of QUESTION-259, how perspectives are generated and transformed, to one mechanism, CLAIM-430’s invitation, and one distinction, CLAIM-429’s state against coupling. | Open |
| QUESTION-306 | Across many artworks of one crowd-built canvas, do placements follow revisions of each artwork’s design made or approved by a small identifiable set of accounts, rather than the designs recording what placers had already done, and does the coordination record assign to other groups placements that a behaviour-only method gives to one? | The promotion condition formerly on THEORY-218, moved here when the tenth status review narrowed THEORY-218 to the one artwork it studied and promoted it, as THEORY-285’s moved to QUESTION-303. The case study shows design led the canvas for one artwork; whether that holds across a canvas, and with how small a core, is this question. | Open |
| QUESTION-310 | Does the effect of forming implementation intentions stay reliably above zero, and of the same small order, once tests published after September 2019 are added or preregistered multi-site replications are run with correction for publication bias, and does it hold outside the lab and online? | The promotion condition formerly on THEORY-918, moved here when the tenth status review narrowed THEORY-918 to what the 2024 meta-analysis measured to September 2019, and promoted it, as THEORY-285’s moved to QUESTION-303. Whether the corrected effect holds in later and registered evidence is this question. | Open |
| QUESTION-320 | Do the precursors of abrupt overthrow found for crowd-maintained images on r/place (plural, partly the defenders’ restoring, accepting and coordinating, and absent for many overthrows) hold in a second collectively maintained system with its own record of attacks and repairs? | The promotion condition formerly on THEORY-214, moved here when the twelfth status review narrowed THEORY-214 to what Falmagne, Stephenson and Levin measured on r/place and promoted it, as THEORY-216’s moved to QUESTION-169. Both of their test sets are r/place, and the social readings of the precursors are the authors’ conjecture from SHAP curves. | Open |
| QUESTION-323 | After an anchoring comparison, is anchor-consistent knowledge more accessible on a measure first shown sensitive to direct priming, and does the difference go with the size of the estimate shift? | The promotion condition formerly on THEORY-335, moved here when the twelfth status review promoted it on a title that claims only the moderations and the failed test, as THEORY-285’s moved to QUESTION-303. Whether the accessibility step is real is this question. | Open |
| QUESTION-334 | Outside NASA, does an organization’s first acceptance of a deviation, traced prospectively, predict widening acceptance and later failure more often than in comparable organizations that eliminate deviations, and does an independent safety function interrupt the pattern? | The promotion condition formerly on THEORY-140, moved here when the fourteenth status review narrowed THEORY-140 to the Columbia board’s finding and promoted it, as THEORY-285’s moved to QUESTION-303. The Board’s finding concerns two accidents in one agency; whether normalization of deviance is a general, causal pattern is this question. | Open |
| QUESTION-342 | In an independent replication of the 2 × 2 removal of shared music and of visual contact in dancing dyads, or a reanalysis of the public data under another movement decomposition, do the music-driven and partner-driven components stay distinct with an equivalence test bounding their interaction near zero, and does a temporal measure other than periodicity (phase lags, directional measures) still fail to tell them apart while a spatial one succeeds? | The promotion condition formerly on THEORY-891, moved here when the status review of 2026-10-30 promoted it under ADR-065. The direction of the partner-driven coupling stays outside it, as the old condition said. | Open |
| QUESTION-348 | In groups that discuss a sequence of issues under a stable network of relative influence, measured independently of the members’ self-weights, does each member’s influence over outcomes come to order as the network’s eigenvector centralities and concentrate above them, as the DeGroot–Friedkin model proves for its own dynamics? | The second half of THEORY-916’s promotion condition, moved here when the twenty-third status review narrowed that condition to the proofs the title asserts (ADR-065; ADR-047 kind 4). The model proves where reflected appraisal goes; whether groups bear it out is this question, and the authors say its assessment “has just begun”. | Open |
| QUESTION-356 | In a real community whose members’ private opinions are measured independently of what they express, does a small, persistently vocal minority go with a large silent share of the majority, and does that silence, rather than conversion or network geometry alone, account for most of the gap between expressed and private opinion? | The promotion condition formerly on THEORY-242, moved here when the status review of 2026-10-30 promoted it under ADR-065. Vilone and Polizzi’s result (LIT-939, read in NOTE-810) is simulation only, and they say the model “should also be validated with empirical data”. | Open |