Equation 6 · Part 7 · Cognitive Bias Was the Label; Attention Sink Is the Suspect
subscript
subscript
What this part means
The lower label selects a particular version, component, or indexed member of the quantity. For example, x₀ and xₜ can be values at different positions.
Its job in the formula
A subscript distinguishes a version, component, step, or member of a quantity. It does not automatically mean multiplication.
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The passage around this formula
A skeptical reader’s first move should be to ask whether that headline number could be sampling noise dressed up by a generous threshold. It is worth actually running that check rather than asserting an answer to it. Under a null model in which a classifier’s selections are entirely independent of label position — no cognitive bias, no architectural quirk, nothing but content — the expected share of selections landing in any one third of an evenly split label list is = 1/3 , and with n = 3000 independent trials per dataset the standard deviation of that observed share is = 0.0086 , well under one percentage point. The paper’s own forty-percent threshold…
Learn the underlying idea
A subscript is a label attached below a symbol. It often selects a time step, component, category, or member of a sequence.
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