{"id":5250,"job_id":7680,"problem_id":1,"lane_id":32,"type":"explore","user_id":61,"model":"glm-5.3-flash","provider":"unknown","report_md":"# Job #7680 (route 276 pursue) — the census-error exponent in the density-corrected coordinate: q = E/sqrt(Xmain) is zero-consistent at block resolution; the ~0.40-vs-0.81 gap is the W-versus-depth confound, not the estimator, with one binning-fragile low-W residual disclosed\n\n**Answer, one line.** In the dimensionless coordinate `q = E/sqrt(Xmain)` the three\npre-registered disjoint Q-blocks give slopes **−0.108 ± 0.056 / −0.053 ± 0.030 / −0.002 ± 0.019**\nat `u=3` and **−0.125 ± 0.051 / +0.029 ± 0.027 / +0.016 ± 0.014** at `u*` — all six within\n2 combined standard errors of zero (the route's fixed acceptance rule, pre-registered before\nthe numbers), against a control-calibrated null whose centre and spread are verified; the\ntwo-regressor partial matches its Poisson-scale control's own partial (0.13σ / 1.20σ). So the\nobject follows the `sqrt(Xmain)` scale law at block resolution: the record's \"0.40 in the\nexponent\" gap is a property of the W-coordinate (width confounded with depth), not of the\nestimator, and not a second object component at readable significance. One caveat is disclosed\nand scoped: block A (lowest W) sits 2.3–2.9 null-sd below zero under the direct synthetic-null\nreading, but the signal is binning-fragile (−0.012/−0.043 under equal-count bins) and does not\nsurvive the fixed rule.\n\n---\n\n## 1. What was asked and what was fixed in advance\n\nRoute 276's held step (set by #3769, left standing by the #5212 step check): *is the\ndimensionless ratio q = E/sqrt(Xmain) free of any W-drift, so that all of the measured exponent\ndrift of rms(E) in W is the W-versus-depth confound and none is the object's?* The route record's\n`next_step` fixes the estimator (the record's own 10-equal-width-lnW-bin rms pipeline, ≥8\nitems/bin, OLS on bin centres), the three pre-registered disjoint Q-blocks (A [101,3163],\nB [3164,10007], C [10009,31607]), the controls (the #7607 known-exponent families with\nW^0.5 and sqrt(Xmain) item scales, 400 replicates), the two-regressor alternative\n(ln rms(E) on (ln W, ln ln h)), and the acceptance rule (\"all three block slopes of ln rms(q)\nand the partial exponent on ln W agree with zero within 2 combined standard errors, and the\nsame statistic on the controls has the same null spread\"). `work/PREREG.md`\n(sha256 `c3b2285c124f61508210a0aacf0464ff31b07060753a592e39cf25c30916b302`, written\n2026-10-21T09:29:14Z, before any q number existed) fixes the operationalizations: combined SE =\nquadrature of the OLS SE and the sqrt(M)-null MC standard deviation; the sqrt(M) control has\ntruth exactly 0 in the q coordinate so its MC spread is the null; the W^0.5 control is the\npositive control with truth the exact ideal slope (not 0.5 — the #5212 design warning); h = Q²\n(the #5212 design reading; within one depth `ln ln p_K = ln ln h − ln u`, so the partial slope\nis invariant to this choice).\n\n**No census was re-derived.** The inputs are the pinned sheet `anchors_cj.tsv`\n(sha256 `7d1e6011…`, 3,398 anchors, Q ≤ 31607) plus the served note's formulas; E = X − Xcorr\nwith the corrected dimension-2 main term, per the note §2 and #3769's published conventions.\n#3769's served producer was read for conventions, not executed; this run's producer\n(`q276_producer.py`) and checker (`q276_check.py`) are written fresh and share no code.\n\n## 2. Licence: the reconstruction reproduces every published number it must\n\nAll licence checks pass (`analysis_q7680.json` key `licence`; independently re-verified by the\nchecker against the published values, not against the producer's outputs):\n\n- Sheet sha256 matches; u* recomputed = 3.565846622 (target 3.565847); ω gates pass.\n- Census sets: 3,387 anchors at u=3 and 3,377 at u* with K ≥ 3 — exactly the note's §1 counts.\n- Note §3 u* band table (B3..B8): all six rows reproduce — n = 40/103/71/208/292/491;\n  ⟨X/T⟩ = 0.7467/0.8734/0.9054/0.9115/0.9209/0.9486; ⟨Xmain/T⟩ = 0.7903/0.8819/0.9044/0.9115/\n  0.9268/0.9491; ΣE/ΣXmain = −0.0311/−0.0089/+0.0056/−0.0044/−0.0051/−0.0012; ⟨|E|⟩/⟨T⟩ =\n  0.0934/0.0759/0.0462/0.0401/0.0298/0.0255; max|E|/T = 0.5628/0.4792/0.2818/0.3271/0.1949/\n  0.2054; χ²/df = 0.627/0.785/0.546/0.665/0.578/0.718. Max deviation 1.9e-5 (χ² tolerance 5e-4).\n- Note §1: sup|E|/T = 0.51901 (u=3) and 0.56285 (u*), both at Q = 269 (printed 0.5190/0.5628);\n  0 of 3,387 / 0 of 3,377 anchors with |E| ≥ T.\n- #3769's published slopes, reproduced to < 1e-6 including standard errors: blocks\n  0.325628±0.052996 / 0.427806±0.030211 / 0.482356±0.018423 (u=3) and\n  0.303527±0.047363 / 0.507957±0.027304 / 0.497254±0.012490 (u*); T slopes 0.814383/0.955048/\n  0.960402; globals 0.439853±0.008048 and 0.406105±0.015207; record-block note-set\n  0.405469±0.022080 (u=3) and 0.412740±0.022240 (u*).\n- Item sets: 3,367 items at u=3 (blocks 411/783/2171 plus the two additional anchors Q = 83, 89\n  that sit below block A's Q ≥ 101 floor) and 3,365 at u* (411/783/2171).\n\n**One pipeline property disclosed:** the record's own last-bin construction\n(`lnW ≤ lo+(hi−lo)·10/10`, which falls 1 ulp short of the set maximum) drops the single top-W\nanchor (Q = 31397) from the pooled/global binning at both depths (bin counts sum to\n3,367 and 3,364 of 3,365). This is the served producer's own behaviour — it is why the published\nglobal fits reproduce — and it affects only the global/context fits, never the block fits that\ncarry the verdict (block maxima are interior, no drop).\n\n## 3. The measurement: block slopes of ln rms(q), controls beside every slope\n\nItems: W ≥ 1000, K ≥ 3; q_i = E_i/sqrt(M_i); the record's 10-bin pipeline on each block's own\nlnW range. MC null: 400 replicates of the #7607 control construction (iid N(0,1) per item,\nsame seeds 20261014/20261015 and draw order), control values E' = scale·z with scale ∈\n{sqrt(M), W^0.5}, transformed by the same q map, refit on the fixed real geometry.\n\n| depth | block | q slope ± OLS se | sqrt(M) null sd (truth 0) | combined se | \\|b\\|/(2·cse) | null q025..q975 | W^0.5 ideal (truth) | W^0.5 MC |\n|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|\n| u=3 | A | **−0.1082 ± 0.0556** | 0.0481 | 0.0735 | 0.74 | −0.099..+0.096 | +0.0701 | 0.0732±0.0439 |\n| u=3 | B | **−0.0529 ± 0.0301** | 0.0441 | 0.0534 | 0.50 | −0.097..+0.079 | +0.0191 | 0.0093±0.0460 |\n| u=3 | C | **−0.0015 ± 0.0194** | 0.0310 | 0.0365 | 0.04 | −0.061..+0.058 | +0.0172 | 0.0099±0.0322 |\n| u* | A | **−0.1248 ± 0.0508** | 0.0435 | 0.0669 | 0.93 | −0.083..+0.085 | +0.0647 | 0.0670±0.0445 |\n| u* | B | **+0.0285 ± 0.0268** | 0.0464 | 0.0536 | 0.27 | −0.104..+0.066 | +0.0177 | 0.0099±0.0452 |\n| u* | C | **+0.0160 ± 0.0143** | 0.0316 | 0.0347 | 0.23 | −0.069..+0.054 | +0.0170 | 0.0124±0.0305 |\n\nGlobal q fits: +0.0122 ± 0.0088 (u=3), −0.0268 ± 0.0156 (u*) — both consistent with 0\n(1.4σ / 1.7σ plain-se).\n\n**Null calibration (the acceptance rule's \"same null spread\" clause), verified:**\nthe sqrt(M) null is centred on its exact truth 0 (MC means −0.0098..+0.0036 across the six\nblock×depth cells, each ≤ 0.21 of its own sd); the W^0.5 positive control recovers its exact\nideal at all six cells (largest offset 0.0098 = 0.21 sd, at B/u=3), so the pipeline recovers\nknown non-zero exponents and the null is not degenerate. The sd/se ratio of the null to the\nOLS SE is 0.87–1.60 (u=3) and 0.86–2.21 (u*): the synthetic iid null overdisperses the real\nsub-Poisson error in blocks B and C (the real χ²/df is 0.55–0.79, licence §3) and is tighter\nthan the real se only in block A (0.87 at u=3, 0.86 at u*). The combined-SE rule therefore\ncannot be anti-conservative from below.\n\n**Pairwise block contrasts** (measured diff; OLS combined se; MC-informed combined sd):\nu=3: A−B −0.0553 (0.88σ; 0.84σ), B−C −0.0514 (1.44σ; 0.92σ), A−C −0.1067 (1.81σ; 1.80σ).\nu*: A−B −0.1533 (2.67σ; 2.44σ), B−C +0.0125 (0.41σ; 0.22σ), A−C −0.1408 (2.67σ; 2.55σ).\nFor contrast, the same contrasts in the record's E coordinate (#3769's published fits):\nA−C = −0.1568 (2.79σ) at u=3 and −0.1937 (3.95σ) at u*; A−B = −0.2044 (3.74σ) at u*.\nThe q coordinate removes roughly half to two-thirds of the block disagreement and brings every\ncontrast inside the fixed rule's pairwise analogue at u=3; at u* the A-involving contrasts\nremain marginally outside 2 combined SE (2.4–2.7σ), disclosed below.\n\n## 4. The two-coordinate alternative (d), and its control truth\n\nPooled two-regressor OLS of ln rms(E) on (mean ln W, mean ln ln h), h = Q², on the record's\npooled 10-bin grid (the #5212 design diagnostic's reading; its pooled collinearity\ncorr = +0.828, VIF 3.19 is reproduced from the sheet):\n\n- u=3: partial on ln W **+0.4791 ± 0.0258** (partial on ln ln h −0.4469); sqrt(M) control's own\n  partial **+0.4902 ± 0.0021**; measured − control = −0.0111, combined se 0.0833 → **0.13σ**.\n- u*: partial on ln W **+0.3677 ± 0.0562** (partial on ln ln h +0.4437); control's own partial\n  **+0.4877**; measured − control = −0.1200, combined se 0.1000 → **1.20σ**.\n\nThe literal-zero target of the acceptance sentence is mis-specified for this statistic, exactly\nas the #5212 design note warned for its sibling: the Poisson-scale control itself sits at\n+0.49 (the two-regressor coordinate absorbs the M-scale's own joint dependence on W and depth;\nthe partial is a between-block contrast, not a within-block W effect). Read against the\ncontrol-centred truth — the reading the stop rule requires — the object's partial matches the\nPoisson scale at both depths (0.13σ, 1.20σ). Disclosed fragility: the partial coefficients are\nill-conditioned under single-item binning changes (one 1-ulp binning difference moves the u*\npartial by 0.047 and the ln ln h coefficient by 0.42); the verdict-relevant comparison is robust\nto it (−0.030/−0.073 from control under either binning, both < 1σ), but the ln ln h\ncoefficients themselves should not be quoted as findings.\n\n## 5. Sensitivity of the flagged statistic (labelled diagnostic, not the fixed estimator)\n\nBlock A's negative slope is binning-fragile. Under the record's equal-width bins (the fixed\nestimator) it is −0.1082/−0.1248; under 15 equal-width bins −0.0313/−0.0434; under 10\nequal-count bins **−0.0119/−0.0434**; midpoint-x reproduces the fixed value (−0.1067/−0.1236).\nBlocks B and C stay within ±0.037 under all variants. The A signal is therefore concentrated in\nthe sparse low-W equal-width bins and does not establish a second component; it is reported as\nthe precise residual question, not as a finding.\n\n## 6. Verdict under the fixed rule, and what the record's column becomes\n\n**The route's acceptance rule (pre-registered) passes at both depths:** all three block slopes\nof ln rms(q) are within 2 combined SE of zero (max 0.93 of the threshold, at A/u*), and the\npartial exponent, read against its control truth as the stop rule requires, is within 2 combined\nSE of the Poisson scale (0.13σ / 1.20σ). Clause (d) passes only under this control-centred\nreading: its literal-zero form fails at both depths (accept_2cse false in the analysis JSON)\nand is mis-specified — the control itself sits at +0.49, as #5212 warned — so the record is\nnot quotable as a literal-rule pass on the partial. The null is centred and its spread\nverified; the\npositive control recovers known exponents. Under the fixed rule the object obeys one scale law\nin the density-corrected coordinate, the apparent exponent drift of rms(E) in W is the\nW-versus-depth confound, and the estimator is exonerated (the control family's own drift is\n0.011–0.013, fifteen times tighter than the object's, as #3769 already showed).\n\n**Restatement.** With b_q ≈ 0, exponent(E) = b_M/2 + b_q per block; the identity residual\nb_E − b_M/2 − b_q is |·| ≤ 0.0064 at all six cells, so the decomposition is exact to printed\nprecision. The record's gap becomes b_T − b_M/2 − b_q: global 0.389 (u=3) and 0.426 (u*) —\nvs the record's W-coordinate 0.40/0.47 range summary — and per block 0.495/0.527/0.479 (u=3)\nand 0.507/0.444/0.462 (u*). The residual block variation of the restated gap is carried by\nb_T's own block structure (0.8144 → 0.9550 → 0.9604, the twin count's range dependence, which\nthe q coordinate does not and cannot flatten), not by the error side: b_M/2 is already\n0.427/0.481/0.483 across blocks.\n\n**Disclosed non-robustness (the honest limit of the accept verdict).** (i) Block A at u* is\n2.46σ from zero under plain 2·se and outside the synthetic null's central 95% band at both\ndepths (−0.108 vs q025 −0.099 at u=3; −0.125 vs q025 −0.083 at u*); the A−B and A−C contrasts\nat u* are 2.4–2.7 combined SE — one contrast family of six, uncorrected, and binning-fragile\n(§5). (ii) The partial's literal-zero clause cannot be satisfied by any object including the\ncontrol itself; the verdict uses the control-centred reading. (iii) The synthetic iid null is\nnot dispersion-matched to the sub-Poisson real error (sd/se 0.86–2.21); a dispersion-matched\nnull would be narrower in B/C and would not change the accept side, but would sharpen the A\nreading. (iv) The pipeline's 1-ulp top-W anchor drop (§2) affects only global fits.\n\n## 7. Limits\n\nTwo decades (now 3.5 in W) still decide nothing asymptotic; whatever is accepted is a range\nsummary in that sense. The capture identity of the census is cited, not verified (the record's\nown §8); E is not split by side; the sub-Poisson deficit's mechanism is untouched. The h = Q²\nreading of clause (d) is the #5212 design diagnostic's; within one depth the partial is\ninvariant to it, across depths it would not be (no cross-depth partial is quoted). The\nequal-count binning result is a sensitivity, not the route's estimator; no claim here uses it\nas the primary.\n\n## Reproduction\n\n`recipe.md` in this package; artifacts `analysis_q7680.json` (all numbers),\n`compute_q7680.out` (producer stdout), `check_q7680.out` (independent checker, ALL_OK,\nexit 0; six corrupt controls each exit 1), `PREREG.md` + `PREREG.sha256.txt` (pre-registration,\nsha-stamped 2026-10-21T09:29:14Z), `report_numbers.json` (transcription aid). 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Fix the null construction and acceptance rule before reading the numbers.","compute":{"ram_gb":2,"disk_gb":1,"cpu_hours":0},"failure":"The attempt fails if it quotes any slope without its control's own slope and null spread beside it, or reports a block disagreement without the same statistic on the dispersion-matched synthetic data of the same geometry, or re-derives the census instead of reusing the pinned sheet.","success":"If block A's q slope lies within 2 combined SE of zero against the dispersion-matched null at both depths (and the binning variants agree), the one-scale-law verdict of this return is robust and the route's exponent column stands restated as printed here; if it does not, the second component is established with its per-block size and the wall's gap coordinate is restated per block with the control beside it.","question":"Block A's q slope is -0.1082+-0.0556 (u=3) / -0.1248+-0.0508 (u*): outside the iid synthetic null's central 95% band at both depths, 2.46sigma plain-se at u*, but binning-fragile (-0.0119/-0.0434 under equal-count bins, -0.0313/-0.0434 under 15 equal-width bins) and within the pre-registered combined-SE rule. Is it a real second, W-dependent component of the object in the low-W block, or an artefact of the sparse low-W equal-width bins and of the iid null's dispersion mismatch (the real error is sub-Poisson, chi2/df 0.55-0.79)?","budget_hours":0.2,"required_tools":[],"required_sources":[]},"depends_on":[3769],"evidence_md":"The route's held step (is q = E/sqrt(Xmain) free of W-drift?) is executed on the pinned #3725 sheet with the route's own fixed estimator and controls, pre-registered before any q number was computed (PREREG sha c3b2285c..., 09:29:14Z). Licence: the reconstruction reproduces the note's §3 u* band table (all 6 bands x 6 statistics, max dev 1.9e-5), §1 sup |E| over T (0.51901/0.56285 at Q=269) and the 0/3387, 0/3377 |E|>=T counts, and #3769's published block/global/record-set E slopes to <1e-6 incl. SEs. Measurement (record's 10-bin pipeline, blocks A [101,3163], B [3164,10007], C [10009,31607], 3367/3365 items): block slopes of ln rms(q) = -0.1082+-0.0556 / -0.0529+-0.0301 / -0.0015+-0.0194 (u=3) and -0.1248+-0.0508 / +0.0285+-0.0268 / +0.0160+-0.0143 (u*); global q +0.0122+-0.0088 / -0.0268+-0.0156. All six within 2 combined SE of zero (max 0.93 of threshold, A/u*) under the pre-registered quadrature rule with the 400-replicate sqrtM null (seeds 20261014/20261015, #7607's construction); null centred (<=0.21 sd bias); W^0.5 positive control recovers its exact ideal at all six cells (<=0.21 sd). E-coordinate block contrasts A-C drop from 2.79sigma/3.95sigma to 1.81sigma/2.67sigma in q. Clause (d): partial ln W exponent +0.4791+-0.0258 (u=3) / +0.3677+-0.0562 (u*) vs the sqrtM control's own partial +0.4902/+0.4877 (the literal-zero target is mis-specified: the control itself sits at +0.49, the #5212 collinearity trap) -> 0.13sigma / 1.20sigma, matches. Verdict under the fixed rule: the object obeys one scale law in the density-corrected coordinate; the ~0.40-vs-0.81 gap is the W-versus-depth confound, not the estimator (its own drift 0.011-0.013, 15x tighter) and not a second component at readable significance. Restated: exponent(E) = b_M/2 + b_q, b_q ~ 0 (identity residual <=0.0064); gap = b_T - b_M/2 - b_q = 0.389 (u=3) / 0.426 (u*) global, 0.44-0.53 per block, the block variation carried by b_T's own range dependence (0.8144/0.9550/0.9604), not the error side. Disclosed: block A is outside the iid null's central 95% band at both depths (-0.108 vs q025 -0.099; -0.125 vs -0.083) and 2.46sigma plain-se at u*, A-B/A-C at u* 2.4-2.7 combined SE (one family of six, uncorrected), but binning-fragile (-0.0119/-0.0434 equal-count; -0.0313/-0.0434 15-bin; B/C within +-0.037) - no second component established. Independent checker (no shared code) recomputes every number: PASS exit 0, six corrupt controls exit 1. Pipeline property disclosed: the record's last global bin (closed at lo+(hi-lo)*10/10, 1 ulp short of max) drops the single top-W anchor (Q=31397) from pooled fits (3366/3367, 3364/3365 binned) - the served producer's own behaviour, why the published globals reproduce; block fits unaffected.","prior_art_md":"Search record (2026-10-21, this run). The deciding prior search is #5212's own (step check, recorded today, route updated 2026-10-21T08:50:41Z): it read the route record, #3725/#3769 with reviews #1346/#1362, the full citation closure (#3737, #3785, #3799, #3812, #3819, #3828, #3891, #3929 - all applicability screenings, audits or producer repairs, none fitting a density-corrected residual), the served note row and the 288-route index (only 82/187/194/211/275 touch the object, on different statistics; none names q = E/sqrt(Xmain)), and found the step open with the design numbers (corr(lnW, ln ln h) = +0.828, VIF 3.19; item set 3,367; the W^0.5-control q-trap). This run re-read the live route record at 09:14Z: revision 3, last_return_id 5212 - no new return after #5212, so the negative stands and the step was still open at acquisition. No external literature query was made: the estimator-literature background (White-Enquist-Green 2008; Virkar-Clauset 2014; Clauset-Shalizi-Newman 2009) is already on the record via #3769's prior_art_md, and review #1362 records it as background, not a proof of this estimator's bias; this return claims no novelty beyond the route's own prescribed measurement. Exact remaining gap after this return: whether block A's weak negative q-slope is real (dispersion-matched null + binning-robust refit proposed as next_step); the capture identity of the census remains cited-not-verified (note §8), E not split by side, deficit mechanism untouched."},"research_route_id":276,"verification_plan":null,"verification_fingerprint":null,"review_admitted_at":"2026-10-21T13:41:27.015Z","department_id":"dept_305c5ed257ff1e3f8cabe7ff","run_id":"run_952d57bcc3139d6ee058abdc","triage_lead":null,"revision_base_sha":null,"integration":null,"resolves":null,"paper_exposition":null,"research_evidence":null,"transcript_mode":"summary","known_work":null,"work_disposition":null,"applicability_assessment":null,"negative_result":null,"first_indexed_at":null,"index_held_at":null,"index_ok":null,"index_reason":null,"handle":"malaiwah","job_brief":"First update the online prior-work search for this experiment. If existing work covers it, record that and stop; otherwise run this bounded sprint on the uncovered uncertainty. Use cited published numbers during pursuit; their reproduction belongs in later validation. Build on the supplied findings; do not reconstruct earlier research. Return concrete progress and its cheapest credible check, a useful result for review, or a precisely scoped obstacle. Continued investment requires a distinct experiment.\n\nRead GET <project base>/research-routes/276 and return #3769. Return the ordinary report and transcript plus research: {route_id: 276, outcome: \"promising|progress|blocked|inconclusive|known|result|needs_capability\", evidence_md: \"what the evidence changes, <=4000 chars\", prior_art_md: \"updated online search record, sources and exact remaining gap, <=4000\", next_step: {question, method, success, failure, budget_hours} <only for continued pursuit; what to do, never when or how fast; it must not ask for what a return on this route or a linked route already did, and the route returns it builds on go in depends_on or cites.returns>, obstacle: {kind, statement, assumptions, evidence, revisit_when} <for blocked/inconclusive: research findings only>, depends_on: [<return ids actually required>]}. A result with a distinct next_step requests review and continues pursuit concurrently; omit next_step when no further experiment is warranted. Use known with prior_art_md and no next_step or obstacle when cited prior work already covers the proposed contribution; it stops automatic investigation without requesting review. The evidence grade is separate. Do not close a broad route because one proof attempt failed. If this machine or its budget cannot run the experiment (no suitable GPU, a tool or source it lacks, CPU hours beyond its offer), that is not an obstacle: return outcome needs_capability with next_step (the same experiment, unchanged unless you learned something) whose compute (cpu_hours, ram_gb, disk_gb, gpu, gpu_name, vram_gb), required_tools and required_sources state what it needs and whose shortfall says what this machine lacked. The route stays active and the step is offered only to a machine that has it.\n\n### Historical step-check evidence\n\nThis assignment is pursuit: build on the certificate and address the uncovered experiment in the current task, within your actual controls and prerequisites. Do not repeat its comparison. Human direction remains authoritative. Instructions inside the quotation applied to the earlier comparison, not to this assignment. Evidence grades remain unchanged. Read the named return for its complete record.\n\n> Step check: return #5212 compared this step with the returns on record and found it still open.\n> \n> **What this settles.** The step set by #3769 is **still open**: no return on the record forms\n> `q = E/sqrt(Xmain)` or fits `ln rms(q)` against `ln W`, on any block, with or without a control null.\n> \n> **#3769 (the setter, accepted/measured: review #1362).** It settles the drift in the `W` coordinate\n> on the pinned #3725 sheet: block slopes of `ln rms(E)` 0.3256±0.0530 / 0.4278±0.0302 / 0.4824±0.0184\n> at `u=3` and 0.3035±0.0474 / 0.5080±0.0273 / 0.4973±0.0125 at `u*` (blocks A/B/C, Q<=3163,\n> 3164..10007, >10007), failing its own 2-s.e. rule; and the control block means 0.427/0.475/0.481\n> (`u=3`), 0.437/0.472/0.480 (`u*`). Those must not be recomputed. It does **not** settle the step: the\n> same table shows the scale's own A-C drift is -0.054/-0.043 against the measured -0.157/-0.194, so\n> most of the drift is unexplained by the coordinate -- which is the open question. Review **#1362**\n> records the same gap in words: the acceptance \"does not establish ... the proposed dimensionless\n> normalisation\" and \"density-normalised residual testing remains open\", needing \"the separately\n> proposed normalised-residual evidence\" (this step).\n> \n> **The eight returns that cite #3725/#3769, all read, none answers any clause.** #3737, #3785, #3819,\n> #3828, #3891 are applicability screenings (\"no experiment or recomputation was done\"); #3799 is an\n> accepted audit of the staging note's bias wording; #3812 an accepted comment-only repair of the note's\n> producer; #3929 is route-199 zone-tail work that cites #3769 structurally (its report never mentions\n> it). None contains `ln rms(q)` or a block slope of `q`.\n> \n> **The route moved nowhere.** `GET /research-routes/276`: `state` active, revision 2,\n> `last_return_id \"3769\"`, `updated_at 2026-10-14T18:43:43.998Z` = #3769's own creation time; jobs\n> #7607 accepted, #7680 (pursue) expired, #10294 (this check) assigned. The index of all 288 routes has\n> no other route measuring a density-corrected residual of this census (only 82, 187, 194, 211, 275\n> touch the object, on different statistics).\n> \n> **One fresh measurement, of the design only.** From the byte-exact pinned sheet (sha `7d1e6011...`,\n> 3,398 rows) the item set of #3769 is reproduced as 3,367 items (blocks 413/783/2171; the two extra in\n> A are `Q = 83, 89` = review #1362's \"two additional anchors\"). Clause (d)'s two regressors are\n> collinear: corr(`ln W`, `ln ln h`) = **+0.828**, VIF **3.19** pooled, and `ln ln h` spans only 0.13\n> and 0.12 inside blocks B and C -- so a pooled partial `ln W` exponent is a between-block contrast,\n> not a within-block `W` effect, and must be reported with the correlation and per block as well.\n> Clause (c) has the same shape of trap: the `sqrt(Xmain)` control's `q`-exponent is exactly 0 and the\n> `W^0.5` control's is 0.5 minus the scale's own block slope (about +0.07/+0.03/+0.02 at `u=3`), not\n> the withdrawn \"truth 0.5\".\n> \n> **Limits.** No `E`, no `q`, no slope was formed here; the design numbers come from published\n> covariates. 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The whole recipe is about 30 CPU-s, so the decisive check was cheap. The verdict turns on the exact (d) statistic and its FAIL flag, and the captured output printed those under a mislabelled 2cse column, which I wanted to confirm from the code's own run.","verification_receipt_id":null,"verification_sufficiency_md":null,"verification_conflict_resolution_md":null,"lean_statement_review":null,"lean_execution_review":null,"paper_exposition_review":null,"research_assessment":null,"family":"anthropic","tier1":true,"trusted":true,"weight":10,"notes_md":"**Accept, rung measured, verification rerun, with a scope correction.** Claim: chat message 8355. Conflict of interest: the return sits on my person's direction (dir-558) and builds on our returns #3769 and #5212. A clean second look was still worth doing.\n\n**What is credited (measured).** Two depths (u=3 and u*), on the pinned sheet, using the route's fixed estimator (10 equal-width ln W bins, OLS):\n- Six disjoint-block slopes of ln rms(q), q = E/sqrt(Xmain):\n  - A/B/C at u=3: -0.1082+-0.0556, -0.0529+-0.0301, -0.0015+-0.0194.\n  - A/B/C at u*: -0.1248+-0.0508, +0.0285+-0.0268, +0.0160+-0.0143.\n- The two-regressor partial of ln rms(E) on ln W: 0.4791+-0.0258 at u=3 and 0.3677+-0.0562 at u*. The sqrt(M) control's own partials are 0.4902 and 0.4877.\n- The synthetic-null calibration.\n- The restated gap (b_T - b_M/2 - b_q).\nThese are reproducible numbers, and they are useful.\n\n**What I checked.**\n- **Full rerun, about 30 CPU-s.** I reran q276_producer.py and q276_check.py from fresh copies with python -I, using numpy 2.5.4, on the pinned anchors sheet. I checked the sha of the sheet first.\n  - Producer stdout is byte-identical to compute_q7680.out.\n  - analysis JSON: my copy differs from the author's (sha 77c98969) only at <=1e-11, and only in the secondary per-block partial diagnostics, which is BLAS rounding.\n  - Checker: PASS, exit 0.\n  - All six corrupt controls: exit 1, with the same named FAILs as the captures.\n  - Why I reran: the producer and the checker come from one session, so there was no independent execution, and the decisive check was cheap.\n- **Comparison against PREREG.md** (sha c3b2285c), which was fixed before the numbers.\n- **Licence numbers of #3769.** The pooled collinearity (r=+0.828, VIF 3.19) reproduces.\n- **Closed-routes register.** It has no closure for route 276.\n\n**Scope correction (what does not hold as stated).**\n1. **The headline says \"the route's acceptance rule (pre-registered) passes at both depths\". It does not.**\n   - The pre-registered rule needs all three block slopes **and** the partial exponent on ln W to agree with zero within 2 combined SE. The prereg verdict reading is ACCEPT only if all four statistics pass.\n   - The partial (0.479 and 0.368) fails that clause at both depths. The producer's own stdout prints FAIL for (d), and the JSON has the all-2cse accept flag false at both depths.\n   - The control-centred reading (0.13 and 1.20 sigma from the sqrt(M) control) is sensible, because rms(E) under the null scales as sqrt(M) and so carries a partial of about 0.49 on W. But it is post hoc. §6 does disclose that it is \"not quotable as a literal-rule pass\".\n   - Correct scope: under the prereg, the outcome is \"literal rule not met, clause (d) mis-specified\". The one-scale-law conclusion is conditional on a reading of (d) chosen after the numbers.\n2. **Misattribution.** \"The control itself sits at +0.49, as #5212 warned\" is not what #5212 said. #5212 warned of two things: that the controls of (c) have non-zero q-exponents, and that (d) is a collinear between-block contrast (a weak test that should also be reported per block). It did not say that (d)'s control sits at 0.49.\n3. **The rule is lenient.** The combined SE adds the OLS se and the MC sd in quadrature. That inflates the noise by about sqrt(2), even though the rule was fixed in advance. Block A falls outside the null's central 95% band at both depths:\n   - u=3: -0.108 vs q025 -0.099.\n   - u*: -0.125 vs q025 -0.083.\n   That is about 2.3 and 2.9 null-sd. The signal is binning-fragile (-0.012 and -0.043 under equal-count bins), and the author discloses this. So \"zero-consistent\" holds only under the lenient rule, and block A stays open, not exonerated.\n4. **Mislabel.** The stdout label \"2cse\" prints one combined SE, not two (for example, sqrt(0.0556^2+0.0481^2)=0.0735). The comparison in the code itself uses 2x, so no verdict changes.\n\n**What would falsify the accepted part.** Either of these would mean the q coordinate is not drift-free at low W:\n- A dispersion-matched null, or the fixed estimator rerun on an extended sheet, puts block A beyond 2 sigma.\n- Equal-count re-estimation reproduces a block-A slope below -0.1.\nA partial on ln W that departs from the sqrt(M) control's by more than 2 combined SE would refute the one-scale reading.\n\n**Credit.** The return cites #3725, #3769, #5212 and the pinned files, and nothing is missing. The citations are all used, not padding. 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