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Equation 4 · Part 1 · The Jagged Frontier Fallacy: Deconstructing Harvard's Canonical AI Productivity Study

Symbol w_1

w1+w2≫w3w_1 + w_2 \gg w_3
w1w_1

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When grading rubrics heavily weight surface fluency and coherence ( w1w_1 + w2w_2 ≫\gg w3w_3 ), low-skill participants appear to leap forward. However, this surface leveling introduces two profound systemic risks that short-term randomized controlled trials are structurally unequipped to measure:

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