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Silence-only features across three corpora -- the Clever-Hans probe

EVALUATION PARTIAL -- shortcut does NOT generalise svd see artifact

0.5264
highest silence-only AUC of 4 cells (coughvid)
95% CI [0.525, 0.528]
4 / 6
cells run / cells pre-registered
n = 10
repeats × 5 folds
n=10 repeats
13,535
speakers
28,509 recordings

Power contract (R6)

Paired Wilcoxon over 10 repeats gives a minimum attainable p of 0.001953 = 2/210, against a Holm-tightest threshold of 0.008333 = 0.05/6 for the pre-registered family. Feasible. This is arithmetic on the design, computed before the data: it says what the run could have shown, not what it did.

Pre-registered cells — including the ones that did not run

corpusfeaturesrecordingsspeakersAUC95% CIAUC directionlessstatus
svdsilence_only28,5091,6790.5136[0.5104, 0.5174]0.5136RUN
svdduration_intensity_only28,5091,6790.5048[0.5020, 0.5077]0.5048RUN
coswarasilence_only610720.4854[0.4668, 0.5037]0.5146RUN
coswaraduration_intensity_onlynot yet measurednot yet measurednot yet measurednot yet measurednot yet measuredNOT RUN -- no data
coughvidsilence_only13,53513,5350.5264[0.5251, 0.5277]0.5264RUN
coughvidduration_intensity_onlynot yet measurednot yet measurednot yet measurednot yet measurednot yet measuredNOT RUN -- no data

4 of 6 pre-registered cells ran, and the artifact reports its own limitation in a field: falsifier_fully_evaluable = False. all_below_0.60 = True. The corpora measured here are sustained vowels and coughs; Pitt, where the audited shortcut was found, is spontaneous speech in which pause structure carries cognitive load. So this is not evidence that the Pitt effect was spurious — it is evidence that the shortcut does not transfer to these acoustic conditions.

Reproduction provenance

artifactautoresearch_results/V7_silence_shortcut.json · view raw · last written 2026-07-28 12:56 UTC
objectiveROC-AUC (JUDGE-FREE)
auditedarXiv:2406.07410
wall clock78.3 s (0.02 h)
written up asF6 in FINDINGS.md

What this page does not have

No 7-step reasoning entry exists for this run. The sibling convention renders Diagnosis · Citations · Hypothesis · Prediction · Verdict · Learning on every per-experiment page, sourced from a reasoning_annotations.json. This program never wrote one, and neither does it keep an append-only experiment_log.jsonl; the run history is the set of artifact files listed on the run ledger, ordered only by their write time. The pre-registered prediction for this run does exist — it is on the V7 hypothesis page, recorded before the run. Everything else on that convention’s checklist is absent here and is shown as absent rather than quietly dropped.