Equation 1 · Part 3 · Cognitive Bias Was the Label; Attention Sink Is the Suspect
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What this part means
The expressions on both sides represent the same quantity under the stated assumptions.
Its job in the formula
The equals sign connects the complete expression on the left with the complete expression on the right. Both sides must have compatible units.
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The passage around this formula
Before any of that, credit belongs where the paper actually earned it, and the measurement is the place it earned it most cleanly. For each classification query, the paper’s own protocol produces two prompts with identical content and different label orders, records which label the model selects under each, and repeats this across three thousand randomly sampled queries per dataset — “designed to eliminate any potential bias in dataset sampling,” in the paper’s own description [ 1 ] . A primacy effect is declared when the first third of a label list accounts for more than forty percent of the model’s selections, aggregated across those three thousand trials; recency and middle effects use…
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An equals sign says that the expression on its left and the expression on its right have the same value under the stated definitions and assumptions.
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Sources cited in the surrounding passage
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