Equation 2 · A Practitioner's Map of Agent Evaluation Frameworks
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The second argument is about how much any one number can actually tell you, independent of harness effects, purely from how many tasks produced it. Treat a benchmark’s headline pass rate as an estimate of a task-set success probability, drawn from n roughly independent trials. The familiar normal approximation to a binomial confidence interval,
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