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Equation 10 · Part 1 · Measuring Frontier Models: Contamination, Variance, and What a Score Can Support

Symbol p

SE=p(1−p)n,\mathrm{SE} = \sqrt{\frac{p(1-p)}{n}} ,
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What this part means

p occurs above the fraction bar. The numerator is divided by the entire denominator below it.

Its job in the formula

p occurs above the fraction bar. The numerator is divided by the entire denominator below it.

The passage around this formula

For a suite of n independent items with true rate p , the standard error of the estimate is SE=p(1−p)n\mathrm{SE} = \sqrt{\frac{p(1-p)}{n}} . which for p ≈\approx 0.5 and n = 200 is about 3.5 percentage points — before adding any run-to-run generation variance, and before accounting for the fact that benchmark items are not independent. A reported two-point difference between two systems on such a suite is not evidence of anything.

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A function assigns an output to each allowed input. The expression f(x) means “apply f to x”.

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