Equation 13 · Part 1 · Cognitive Bias Was the Label; Attention Sink Is the Suspect
Symbol p
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p is part of the quantity the equation computes from the expression on the right.
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p is part of the quantity the equation computes from the expression on the right.
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…the question an attention-sink account would want answered — predicts the effect. On the MASSIVE dataset, the primacy-effect regression reports a Model Size coefficient of -0.0345 with a standard error of 0.103 and p = 0.738 : a small, statistically unremarkable coefficient, cleanly estimated, that shows no relationship. Read alone, that looks like real evidence against any scale-dependent architectural account.
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