# Quality signal

`kaal:entity:quality-signal`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 2 claims that carry the concept tag `quality-signal`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

2 claims across 2 works, 2017 to 2026.

**2017**

- [3071378-031](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3071378-031) [mechanism/argued] -- Because transacting parties judge transaction parameters and products on quality perceptions rather than on less rational and biased factors, quality becomes the true deciding factor in the marketplace, which eliminates prejudices.
  > transaction parameters or products are judged by the transacting parties based on quality perceptions not based-on other less rational and biased factors. This allows quality of the transaction and/or final product to be the true deciding factor in the market place, eliminating prejudices.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Blockchain Technology and Race in Corporate America (2017). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3071378

**2026**

- [6192998-021](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/6192998-021) [empirical/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Binary upvote and downvote validation destroys roughly ninety seven percent of the available quality signal produced by validator assessments.
  > We're destroying 97% of the available quality signal.
  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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