kaal:claim:7598518-035

Claim. The preregistered pilot meant to confirm that every arm completes was never run, the confirmatory seeds ran without it, and the paper states that their later completion does not cure the skipped gate.

Type. empirical · Support. stated

Holds when

• This is one of two disclosed departures from the frozen procedure.
• Both departures qualify every reading the paper would issue.

Source quote

The preregistered pilot, three seeds and two generations meant to confirm that every arm completes, was never run, and the confirmatory seeds ran without it. Their later completion does not cure the skipped gate.

From. Wulf A. Kaal, Can Reputation Prevent Model Collapse? A Preregistered Test of Reputation-Weighted Data Filtering (2026). Full text.

Cite as. Wulf A. Kaal, Can Reputation Prevent Model Collapse? A Preregistered Test of Reputation-Weighted Data Filtering (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=7598518

Verify. sha256 of source PDF cd22d148b2b55c2e27f087dcaa61cdf44ad7022b400b355c31a9cd7e43a31749 at https://wulfkaal.com/papers/7598518.pdf

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