kaal:claim:6192998-022

Without granular attribution a meaningful citation graph cannot be constructed, because the system cannot record which dimension of a contribution was valuable, for example strong conceptual innovation paired with poor execution.

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Without granular attribution, we cannot build a meaningful citation graph. We don't know that Alice's innovation insight was valuable even though her execution was poor, or that Bob's contribution was primarily in implementation rather than conceptual novelty.

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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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validation collapses multidimensional assessment into a single bit

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conditionsupport: arguedfailure: granularity-lossfamily: measurement-and-metric-failurecitation-and-knowledge

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