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Equation 10 · Part 2 · Cognitive Bias Was the Label; Attention Sink Is the Suspect

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4.7×10−154.7 \times 10^{-15}
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A raised number can be a power. When it is a label or bound, it selects a case or the upper limit of a sum; the formula’s structure distinguishes these uses.

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A raised mark can be a power or an index. Its position and the surrounding notation determine which.

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​ ≈ 0.0086 , well under one percentage point. The paper’s own forty-percent threshold sits 0.40 - 0.3333 ≈\approx 0.0667 above that null mean, which is z ≈\approx 7.75 standard deviations out — a one-sided tail probability, by the normal approximation to the binomial (valid here since np0(1−p0)p_0(1-p_0) ≈\approx 667 , far above the usual rule-of-thumb minimum), of roughly 4.7 ×\times 10^{-15} . At three thousand trials per dataset, in other words, a classifier with no position sensitivity of any kind would essentially never cross this threshold by chance, in either direction. Whatever explains the measured pattern, it is not noise inflated by a lenient bar. This computation does not touch the paper’s…

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