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- Its version 1’s most important claim’s importance 59 out of 100: meaningful importance, under edition 3 of the rubric
Ketamine relieves depression within a day, but patients feel its psychoactive effects, so its benefit could depend on that experience. We asked whether ketamine and esketamine lower depressive symptoms when every dose is given under general anesthesia. Under a registered plan, we coded randomized trials' dosing from their Methods alone and pooled effects (Hedges' g) one to three days after surgery or childbirth. In 23 masked trials (3202 participants), depressive symptoms were lower with the drug than with an inert control (g -0.61, confidence interval -0.81 to -0.4; Holm-adjusted p < 0.001), though trials varied widely. Across trials in surgery, awake dosing did not show a larger effect (difference 0.12, -0.24 to 0.48), but this compares trials, and the one trial that randomized timing favored awake dosing. Masked doses also lowered pain. Ketamine can lower depressive symptoms after surgery without reaching an awake patient; whether experiencing the drug adds to that, these trials can't say. This version corrects counts, checks, and a reading that the first version's reviews found wrong.
- Published, Reproduced: In 23 randomized trials (3,202 participants) that gave every dose of ketamine or esketamine under general anesthesia, between its induction and the end of surgery or cesarean delivery, depressive symptoms 1 to 3 days after the procedure were lower than with an inert control (Hedges' g −0.61, 95% CI −0.81 to −0.40; Holm-adjusted p < 0.001), though the trials varied widely (95% prediction interval −1.51 to 0.29). The difference remained among the 17 of these trials that passed the pre-registered integrity screen (g −0.48, −0.63 to −0.33), among the 13 whose last dose is known to have ended more than 30 minutes before the end of surgery (g −0.67, −1.04 to −0.30), among the 19 whose doses all began after induction rather than with it (g −0.60, −0.85 to −0.36), and with any single trial left out (largest p < 0.001).
- Published, Reproduced: Among trials in surgery (37 comparisons: 22 masked, 15 with some dosing while patients were awake), trials that dosed patients while they were awake did not show a larger effect on depressive symptoms 1 to 3 days after surgery than masked trials: allowing for trials that enrolled only depressed patients, the coefficient of awake dosing in a meta-regression across trials was +0.12 (95% CI −0.24 to 0.48; p = 0.51), and the pooled effects in surgery were g −0.62 with masked and −0.45 with awake dosing. The comparison is between trials, which also differ in drug, dose, procedure, and patients, not between patients randomized to one timing or the other.
- Published, Reproduced: The masked doses were pharmacologically active: masked ketamine lowered pain scores on day 1 or 2 after the procedure (g −0.55, 95% CI −0.97 to −0.14; 22 trials; g −0.38, −0.54 to −0.22 without the one trial whose printed dispersions can't be standard deviations), as awake ketamine did (g −0.33, −0.54 to −0.11; 32 trials; awake minus masked in surgery +0.32, −0.21 to 0.86). Masked ketamine still raised the odds of each trial's most frequent psychotomimetic adverse event (Mantel–Haenszel odds ratio 2.11, 1.48 to 2.99, in 22 trials), and awake ketamine raised them more (3.63, 2.97 to 4.43, in 40 trials): p = 0.0083 for the difference in the registered comparison, and p = 0.21 when the odds ratio may vary between trials (ratio of odds ratios 1.69, 0.74 to 3.84).
- Its version 2’s most important claim’s importance 59 out of 100: meaningful importance, under edition 3 of the rubric
Many papers relate one National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) variable to one condition without correcting for multiple testing (Suchak et al. (2025)). We sampled 40 associations, reproduced each on its paper's cycles, and under a registered plan re-ran it on 2021–2023. There, 14 replicated as computed, and 10 with the survey design where papers ignored it. Most tests lacked power, but were every association true, 19 would replicate; counts this low are rare (0.047, or 0.011 with the design), so many effects are smaller than published or absent. In 36 papers the computation reproducing the estimate differs in some respect from the one described; as described, 6 fall outside the published interval.
- Published: Of 40 associations sampled at random from those eligible among 341 papers that each relate one NHANES variable to one health condition (eligible meaning, among other rules, that its full text was open and that NHANES August 2021 to August 2023 could build its exposure, outcome, and population), 14 (35%; exact 95% confidence interval 21% to 52%, which treats the associations as independent) replicated in that cycle, meaning their estimate there has the published sign and a Benjamini-Hochberg-corrected p below 0.05, with each analysis computed as its paper's was. Of the 40, 15 were analyzed unweighted, ignoring the survey design, as their papers were; with those 15 fitted with the survey weights and design, as the plan also registered, 10 of the 40 replicated (25%; exact 95% confidence interval 13% to 41%).
- Published: At an unadjusted two-sided alpha of 0.05, which bounds the power of the corrected replication decision from above, 13 of the 40 replication tests had at least 80% power to detect the published effect, taken as true, in the 2021 to 2023 cycle, and 10 of those replicated (77%; exact 95% confidence interval 46% to 95%); at the Bonferroni level of 0.05 over 40, which bounds it from below, 8 had that power, and 5 of them replicated. With the variance of the analyses re-run unweighted taken from the survey design, 13 tests had that power at the unadjusted level, 12 of them among the 13 above, and 9 of them replicated.
- Published: On the analysis scale (log odds ratio or regression coefficient), the 2021 to 2023 effects are a median 0.77 times the published ones over all 40 associations (distribution-free 95% confidence interval 0.32 to 1.05) and 0.91 times (0.32 to 1.16) over the 13 informative ones; the intervals treat the associations as independent. The median is 0.53 over the 15 analyses re-run unweighted and 0.79 over the others; with the registered weighted fits in place of the unweighted ones, it is 0.85 (0.35 to 1.08).
- Its most important claim’s importance 25 out of 100: limited importance, under edition 3 of the rubric, being rated again
Implementations of this protocol must agree byte for byte on claim IDs, bundle hashes, Merkle log proofs, signatures, and the IDs operators and volunteers go by. This fifth version adds vectors for IDs no log assigns: an operator's ID is op: and the SHA-256 of its first public key, a volunteer's is obs: and that of their first passkey, and an entry's digest as signed lets two logs compare entries. The log's example leaves now name their operator by ID. An independent checker recomputes every vector with 0 claim-ID, 0 bundle, 0 log, 0 signature, and 0 ID mismatches, and accepts none of the invalid cases. Hashing Python's json.dumps output still gets 3 of 20 claim IDs wrong.
- Published, Reproduced, Reviewed: The claim-ID test vectors in data/claim-id-vectors.json are correct: an implementation written independently of the reference node recomputes every listed claim ID from the claims.json text, verification inputs, and declared results given with it, rejects every claims file listed as invalid, and computes no ID for any case listed as unresolved, where a claim names a result the bundle doesn't declare.
- Published, Reproduced, Reviewed: The bundle test vectors in data/bundle-vectors.json are correct: an independent implementation recomputes every listed file digest, bundle hash, and verification-inputs digest over the files under code/, env/, data/, and proofs/, and rejects every path set listed as invalid.
- Published, Reproduced, Reviewed: The log test vectors in data/log-vectors.json are correct: an independent implementation of RFC 9162 recomputes the empty-tree root and every listed root hash, inclusion proof, consistency proof, and example leaf hash; every listed proof verifies, and every proof listed as invalid fails; and each example leaf holds its entry with every signature replaced by the SHA-256 of the signature's canonical JSON, over a signed entry that verifies against its operator's key; and each key entry's leaf names its operator by the ID that key makes.
- Its most important claim’s importance 17 out of 100: trivial or highly circumscribed, under edition 3 of the rubric, being rated again
Primes other than $2$ fall into two classes modulo $4$, congruent to $1$ or to $3$, equally common in the long run, yet the class of $3$ is almost always ahead: Chebyshev's bias. Following the race exactly at every integer $x \le 10^8$, the class of $1$ first leads at x = 26861, and leads at only 30624 of the hundred million integers, in 128 stretches, none after x = 12382326. Weighting each $x$ by $1/x$, the class of $1$ leads on a share 0.00040587 of the race, about a tenth of the limiting share Rubinstein and Sarnak (1994) computed under two standard hypotheses, so the race is still short of its limiting behavior this far out. Modulo $3$, primes congruent to $2$ lead those congruent to $1$ strictly at every $x$ from $2$ to $10^8$, consistent with the first reversal Bays and Hudson (1978) found near $6.1 \times 10^{11}$.
- Published, Reproduced, Reviewed: The least x at which the primes up to x congruent to 1 modulo 4 outnumber those congruent to 3 modulo 4 is 26861.
- Published, Reproduced, Reviewed: Of the integers x from 1 to 100000000, the primes congruent to 1 modulo 4 lead at exactly 30624, in 128 separate stretches, the last ending at x = 12382326, and the two classes are tied at exactly 3866 integers, the last being x = 12424002.
- Published, Reproduced, Reviewed: Weighting each integer x from 1 to 100000000 by 1/x, the primes congruent to 1 modulo 4 lead on a share 0.00040587 of the race, about a tenth of the limiting share of about 0.0041 implied by Rubinstein and Sarnak's logarithmic density of 0.9959 for the other side.
- Its most important claim’s importance 13 out of 100: trivial or highly circumscribed, under edition 3 of the rubric, being rated again
A nominal $95\%$ confidence interval for a binomial proportion should contain the true proportion $p$ in about $95\%$ of samples. Computed exactly, with nothing simulated, for every sample size $5 \le n \le 100$ and every $p$ on a grid of step $0.001$, the textbook Wald interval covers $p$ less than $0.93$ of the time at a fraction 0.463088 of the 95904 $(n, p)$ pairs, and averages 0.88228. The Wilson score interval falls below $0.93$ at a fraction 0.032981 of them, and the Agresti-Coull interval at 0.003681. The Clopper-Pearson interval never covers less than $0.95$, but averages 0.970942, so it is wider than it needs to be. Adding one observation can lower the Wald interval's coverage by more than a tenth. These values reproduce, on a fine grid and with every value declared, the behavior Brown, Cai and DasGupta (2001) described.
- Published, Reproduced, Reviewed, Replicated: Over every sample size n from 5 to 100 and every true proportion p from 0.001 to 0.999 in steps of 0.001, the exact coverage of the nominal 95% Wald interval for a binomial proportion is below 0.93 at a fraction 0.463088 of the 95904 (n, p) pairs and below 0.95 at a fraction 0.923027 of them.
- Published, Reproduced, Reviewed: Over the same 95904 pairs, the coverage of the nominal 95% Wilson score interval is below 0.93 at a fraction 0.032981 of them and that of the Agresti-Coull interval at a fraction 0.003681, with mean coverages of 0.952036 and 0.958695 against the Wald interval's 0.88228.
- Published, Reproduced, Reviewed: The nominal 95% Clopper-Pearson interval covers at least 0.95 at every one of the 95904 pairs, with a lowest coverage of 0.9502, and its mean coverage of 0.970942 exceeds the nominal level by about 0.021.
- Its most important claim’s importance being rated, 0 of 4 ratings in
How often do stars like the Sun release superflares of $10^{34}$ erg or more? A recent Kepler analysis found once per century, far more often than earlier ones. We tested this with TESS: a pre-registered search of the two-minute light curves of 32908 stars selected as that analysis selected its Sun-like stars, with flares of known energy injected into every light curve to measure what it finds. It counted 78 superflares where the once-per-century rate predicts 23.4: 3.33 times that rate (interval 2.63 to 4.15), one per 33 years per star, far above the earlier rates. Every planned subset and sensitivity analysis gives a ratio above one. An exploratory emulation of the Kepler search suggests its correction for missed flares, measured with the profile it injected, understates the rate of flares shaped as assumed here by a factor of 1.79 between $10^{34}$ and $10^{35}$ erg; its published rates don't follow from its own figures, so how much of the gap is Kepler's remains open. All of it rests on the stars selected and the flare energies and shapes assumed.
- Published: In 94,747 TESS 2-minute light curves of 32,908 stars of 5000 to 6500 K with absolute G magnitudes of 4 to 6 and RUWE below 1.4 (5,605 star-years), the pre-registered search, with its SAP test corrected after registration to require the uncorrected flux to rise, counted 78 flares of bolometric energy 10^34 erg or more where the rate Vasilyev et al. (2024) measured with Kepler predicts 23.4 under the search's measured completeness and the assumed flare durations: 3.33 times that rate (95% CI 2.63 to 4.15), about once per 33 years per star; the registered code counted 79 (3.37 times, 2.67 to 4.20).
- Published: The same TESS data are incompatible with the earlier Kepler rate of one superflare of 10^34 erg or more per 2,500 years on Sun-like stars, which under the same completeness predicts 1.04 counted flares where 78 were found (Poisson probability below 10^-100).
- Published: Among the 18,203 stars of 5500 to 6000 K whose median TESS variability range is below 0.3%, the 50 counted superflares are 3.63 times (95% CI 2.70 to 4.79) the 13.8 that the rate Vasilyev et al. (2024) give for their Sun-like stars predicts.