# kaal:claim:6192998-011

**Claim.** The 2018 system produces only binary accept or reject outcomes, so it has no way to express intermediate assessments such as good but not great, or excellent innovation with poor execution.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** argued

**Source quote.**

> Problem 1: Binary validation only. The system produces only binary outcomes (accept/reject). No mechanism exists to say "good but not great" or "excellent innovation, poor execution."

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Evolution of Domain-Specific Reputation Systems From Binary Validation to Citation-Weighted Knowledge Attribution* (2026), II.D. Identified Limitations of the Original Framework, page 15

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Evolution of Domain-Specific Reputation Systems From Binary Validation to Citation-Weighted Knowledge Attribution (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6192998

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**Failure mode.** binary-validation-only  (family: measurement-and-metric-failure)

**Topics.** institutional-design

**Keywords.** binary-validation, quality-assessment, framework-limitations, granularity

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