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Binary upvote and downvote validation destroys roughly ninety seven percent of the available quality signal produced by validator assessments.

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We're destroying 97% of the available quality signal.

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Wulf A. Kaal, Evolution of Domain-Specific Reputation Systems From Binary Validation to Citation-Weighted Knowledge Attribution (2026), III.C. Binary Information Destruction, p. 23
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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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five validators supplying two dimensional assessments on ten point scales

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empiricalsupport: arguedfailure: binary-information-destructionfamily: measurement-and-metric-failureinstitutional-design

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