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Questions and experiments are stages of one lifecycle. “Ready” means the data, falsifier, boring confound, verifier, and claim ceiling all exist. Today, zero tests meet that full bar.
Needs designQ-COMMUNICATION-SPLIT
What survives when the exploratory communication split pattern is tested on validated held-out labels?
1 linked test · last triaged 2026-07-23
TEST-COMMUNICATION-SPLIT-V1: test, blocker, and kill rule
- Available data
- Exploratory source artifacts exist
- Blocker
- validated labels and a frozen discriminant
- Boring confound
- source vocabulary, report purpose, and unvalidated proxy labels
- Verifier
- Frozen held-out label benchmark with source-matched controls
- Kill rule
- Kill the pattern if it fails held-out validated labels or source-matched controls.
- Claim ceiling
- Exploratory corpus/measurement result only.
Needs designQ-DISCOURSE-QUALITY
What survives when the exploratory discourse quality pattern is tested on validated held-out labels?
1 linked test · last triaged 2026-07-23
TEST-DISCOURSE-QUALITY-V1: test, blocker, and kill rule
- Available data
- Exploratory source artifacts exist
- Blocker
- validated labels and a frozen discriminant
- Boring confound
- source vocabulary, report purpose, and unvalidated proxy labels
- Verifier
- Frozen held-out label benchmark with source-matched controls
- Kill rule
- Kill the pattern if it fails held-out validated labels or source-matched controls.
- Claim ceiling
- Exploratory corpus/measurement result only.
Needs designQ-DREAM-EXPERIENCE-EEG
Is the dream-report EEG correlate more than arousal or sleep depth?
1 linked test · last triaged 2026-07-23
TEST-DREAM-EXPERIENCE-EEG-V1: test, blocker, and kill rule
- Available data
- Archive data and exploratory result exist
- Blocker
- analysis design and adequate raw channels
- Boring confound
- stage, time, absolute power, and arousal
- Verifier
- Stage/time-matched replication with absolute power and source localization
- Kill rule
- Kill consciousness-specific framing if arousal/depth controls absorb the effect.
- Claim ceiling
- Archive-local physiological correlate only.
Needs designQ-EM-MEASUREMENT-INVARIANCE
What survives when the exploratory em measurement invariance pattern is tested on validated held-out labels?
1 linked test · last triaged 2026-07-23
TEST-EM-MEASUREMENT-INVARIANCE-V1: test, blocker, and kill rule
- Available data
- Exploratory source artifacts exist
- Blocker
- validated labels and a frozen discriminant
- Boring confound
- source vocabulary, report purpose, and unvalidated proxy labels
- Verifier
- Frozen held-out label benchmark with source-matched controls
- Kill rule
- Kill the pattern if it fails held-out validated labels or source-matched controls.
- Claim ceiling
- Exploratory corpus/measurement result only.
Needs designQ-ENVIRONMENTAL-SUBSTRATE
Does the wet/cave/forest lower-trickster pattern survive blinded row adjudication and corpus controls?
1 linked test · last triaged 2026-07-23
TEST-ENVIRONMENTAL-SUBSTRATE-V1: test, blocker, and kill rule
- Available data
- Existing 120-row stratified packet
- Blocker
- coding rubric and second coder
- Boring confound
- genre words, setting mentions, report length, and source channel
- Verifier
- Two blinded human coders plus held-out adjudication agreement and within-corpus estimates
- Kill rule
- Kill if adjudicated positives collapse to lexical artifacts or within-corpus effects vanish.
- Claim ceiling
- One packet/corpus ecology result; no environmental causation.
Needs designQ-LIGHT-SEPARATION
What survives when the exploratory light separation pattern is tested on validated held-out labels?
1 linked test · last triaged 2026-07-23
TEST-LIGHT-SEPARATION-V1: test, blocker, and kill rule
- Available data
- Exploratory source artifacts exist
- Blocker
- validated labels and a frozen discriminant
- Boring confound
- source vocabulary, report purpose, and unvalidated proxy labels
- Verifier
- Frozen held-out label benchmark with source-matched controls
- Kill rule
- Kill the pattern if it fails held-out validated labels or source-matched controls.
- Claim ceiling
- Exploratory corpus/measurement result only.
Needs designQ-NDE-DREAM-MEANING
Do NDE and DreamBank meaning/communication contrasts survive source, length, and ontology controls?
1 linked test · last triaged 2026-07-23
TEST-NDE-DREAM-MEANING-V1: test, blocker, and kill rule
- Available data
- NDE and DreamBank text exist
- Blocker
- validated refined ontology
- Boring confound
- source style, length, repeated people, and ontology leakage
- Verifier
- Blinded codebook labels with held-out source-family tests
- Kill rule
- Kill if the contrast vanishes under source/length controls.
- Claim ceiling
- Two-archive semantic contrast only.
Needs designQ-ONSET-GRAMMAR
Do validated hallmark events have reproducible onset order across experiential corpora and fiction controls?
1 linked test · last triaged 2026-07-23
TEST-ONSET-GRAMMAR-V1: test, blocker, and kill rule
- Available data
- OBERF/NDERF and fiction text exist
- Blocker
- context-aware extractor and gold labels
- Boring confound
- broad keyword position masquerading as event order
- Verifier
- Blinded event-identity precision gate before any order statistic
- Kill rule
- Kill if event precision fails or order matches fiction/source artifacts.
- Claim ceiling
- Validated corpus order only; no universal experiential sequence.
Needs designQ-ONTOLOGY-SAFETY
Can broad EM/time labels be replaced without losing valid distinctions?
1 linked test · last triaged 2026-07-23
TEST-ONTOLOGY-SAFETY-V1: test, blocker, and kill rule
- Available data
- Old labels and source-grounded rows exist
- Blocker
- gold annotations
- Boring confound
- polysemy and source-specific word meaning
- Verifier
- Manual adjudication benchmark comparing broad and split ontologies
- Kill rule
- Reject any replacement that fails held-out meaning discrimination.
- Claim ceiling
- Ontology-performance result only.
Needs designQ-SENSORY-REDUCTION
Does a sensory-reduction pattern survive matched Ganzfeld, hypnosis, dream, and sleep-paralysis controls?
1 linked test · last triaged 2026-07-23
TEST-SENSORY-REDUCTION-V1: test, blocker, and kill rule
- Available data
- Several local corpora; protocol coverage uneven
- Blocker
- shared coding instrument
- Boring confound
- report purpose, length, and vocabulary leakage
- Verifier
- Matched human-validated labels with corpus-held-out contrasts
- Kill rule
- Kill if controls reproduce the same pattern after matching.
- Claim ceiling
- Corpus separation only; no sensory-gating mechanism.
Needs designQ-THREAT-PRESENCE-INVARIANCE
Are threat/presence labels measurement-invariant across source families?
1 linked test · last triaged 2026-07-23
TEST-THREAT-PRESENCE-INVARIANCE-V1: test, blocker, and kill rule
- Available data
- Candidate corpora and proposed benchmark exist
- Blocker
- gold set and label rubric
- Boring confound
- ordinary fear, entity nouns, genre conventions
- Verifier
- Blinded multi-source gold set with per-source precision/recall floors
- Kill rule
- Kill invariance if accuracy or meaning shifts materially by source.
- Claim ceiling
- Measurement result only; no entity interpretation.
Needs designQ-TIME-MEASUREMENT-INVARIANCE
What survives when the exploratory time measurement invariance pattern is tested on validated held-out labels?
1 linked test · last triaged 2026-07-23
TEST-TIME-MEASUREMENT-INVARIANCE-V1: test, blocker, and kill rule
- Available data
- Exploratory source artifacts exist
- Blocker
- validated labels and a frozen discriminant
- Boring confound
- source vocabulary, report purpose, and unvalidated proxy labels
- Verifier
- Frozen held-out label benchmark with source-matched controls
- Kill rule
- Kill the pattern if it fails held-out validated labels or source-matched controls.
- Claim ceiling
- Exploratory corpus/measurement result only.
Needs designQ-UAP-CRYPTID-ECOLOGY
What survives when the exploratory uap cryptid ecology pattern is tested on validated held-out labels?
1 linked test · last triaged 2026-07-23
TEST-UAP-CRYPTID-ECOLOGY-V1: test, blocker, and kill rule
- Available data
- Exploratory source artifacts exist
- Blocker
- validated labels and a frozen discriminant
- Boring confound
- source vocabulary, report purpose, and unvalidated proxy labels
- Verifier
- Frozen held-out label benchmark with source-matched controls
- Kill rule
- Kill the pattern if it fails held-out validated labels or source-matched controls.
- Claim ceiling
- Exploratory corpus/measurement result only.
Needs designQ-UAP-EVIDENCE-CHANNEL
What survives when the exploratory uap evidence channel pattern is tested on validated held-out labels?
1 linked test · last triaged 2026-07-23
TEST-UAP-EVIDENCE-CHANNEL-V1: test, blocker, and kill rule
- Available data
- Exploratory source artifacts exist
- Blocker
- validated labels and a frozen discriminant
- Boring confound
- source vocabulary, report purpose, and unvalidated proxy labels
- Verifier
- Frozen held-out label benchmark with source-matched controls
- Kill rule
- Kill the pattern if it fails held-out validated labels or source-matched controls.
- Claim ceiling
- Exploratory corpus/measurement result only.
Needs designQ-UAP-REPORTING-ECOLOGY
What survives when the exploratory uap reporting ecology pattern is tested on validated held-out labels?
1 linked test · last triaged 2026-07-23
TEST-UAP-REPORTING-ECOLOGY-V1: test, blocker, and kill rule
- Available data
- Exploratory source artifacts exist
- Blocker
- validated labels and a frozen discriminant
- Boring confound
- source vocabulary, report purpose, and unvalidated proxy labels
- Verifier
- Frozen held-out label benchmark with source-matched controls
- Kill rule
- Kill the pattern if it fails held-out validated labels or source-matched controls.
- Claim ceiling
- Exploratory corpus/measurement result only.
Needs designQ-OBERF-TELLING-ORDER
Does the coarse telling-order gradient replicate in the independently collected NDERF corpus?
1 linked test · last triaged 2026-07-23
TEST-OBERF-TELLING-ORDER-V1: test, blocker, and kill rule
- Available data
- Local NDERF exports (nderf_experiences.csv, nderf_reports.csv)
- Blocker
- second precision rater
- Boring confound
- narrative prompts and questionnaire structure shaping telling order
- Verifier
- Frozen extractor v2 + precision gate with a second rater + event-set-preserving permutation null
- Kill rule
- Kill if either endpoint fails p<=0.005 in both NDERF splits with gate-passing markers.
- Claim ceiling
- Telling order in one additional corpus; still not experienced order.
Needs designQ-GANZFELD-DB-STRUCTURE
Does the database-level structure (robust pooled excess, no decline, weak small-study signal) hold in the independent Tressoldi compilation?
1 linked test · last triaged 2026-07-23
TEST-GANZFELD-DB-STRUCTURE-V1: test, blocker, and kill rule
- Available data
- Local MA_GanzfeldESP.xlsx (Tressoldi set)
- Blocker
- none
- Boring confound
- overlapping study membership between compilations
- Verifier
- Same frozen audit statistics plus a study-overlap dedup join between the two files
- Kill rule
- Kill consistency if conclusions flip after overlap dedup at frozen thresholds.
- Claim ceiling
- Structure of compiled databases; upstream selection untested.