# kaal:claim:6819121-035

**Claim.** The evaluations measure what DAOs document about themselves rather than what DAOs do in operation, a source-document constraint the analysis does not claim to overcome.

**Type.** methodological  **Support.** asserted

**Holds when.**

- publicly available documentation as the evaluation source

**Source quote.**

> The scores measure what DAOs document about themselves rather than what DAOs do in operation.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *The Institutional Deficit in Decentralized Autonomous Organizations - An Empirical Analysis* (2026), X. Limitations, page 35

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, The Institutional Deficit in Decentralized Autonomous Organizations - An Empirical Analysis (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6819121

**Verify.** sha256 of source PDF `f04b274f926d23848e77b429a13227baed9858b90fec826ddaabd2acca7035fe` at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wulfkaal/Academic-Papers/main/papers/pdf/Kaal%20-%202026%20-%20The%20Institutional%20Deficit%20in%20Decentralized%20Autonomous%20Organizations%20-%20An%20Empirical%20Analysis.pdf

**Topics.** research-methods, empirical-evidence, dao

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