kaal:claim:7665358-037

Claim. A mechanism that has not been tested has not been shown to work.

Type. normative · Support. stated

Holds when

• The paper's closing sentence.
• It follows from the absence of a result, not from a negative result.

Source quote

A mechanism that has not been tested has not been shown to work.

From. Wulf A. Kaal, Selected Experience: A Preregistered Test of Reputation as a Data Filter Under Recursive Training (2026), page 11. Full text.

Cite as. Wulf A. Kaal, Selected Experience: A Preregistered Test of Reputation as a Data Filter Under Recursive Training (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=7665358

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