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R0007/2026-03-19/C003/SRC01/E01

Research R0007 — AI Made Everyone Faster
Run 2026-03-19
Claim C003
Source SRC01
Evidence SRC01-E01
Type Statistical

82.53% of 229 samples had significantly heavy right tails.

URL: http://ww.hermanaguinis.com/pdf/PPsych2016a.pdf

Extract

From secondary sources referencing the 2016 paper: "82.53% of 229 samples of worker output had significantly heavy right-tails containing stars." Across the 229 samples, the mean standard deviation value is 9.91, the median is 6.98, and the range is 51.60.

Relevance to Hypotheses

Hypothesis Relationship Strength
H1 Contradicts Statistic is from 2016, not 2014 as claimed
H2 Supports Confirms the statistic exists but in a different paper
H3 Contradicts Statistic is real, not fabricated

Context

The 82.53% figure appears to be reported in the 2016 "Conductors and Insulators" paper, which extended the empirical analysis beyond the 2012 original.