research-document RFR-79B5C473
Independent validation of the central claim: Contextual Color-Token Robustness
RFR-79B5C473 — Independent validation of the central claim: Contextual Color-Token Robustness
Research opportunity
Independent validation of the central claim for the claims or recommendations in “Contextual Color-Token Robustness.”
Background
The originating artifact is accepted by the repository publishing inventory with status “computational-pilot-complete-human-study-pending.” Its Pilot results section provides the immediate evidence boundary.
Evidence trace
- Origin document: content/projects/itten-color-contrasts/experiment-report/EX-ITTEN-002-contextual-token-robustness.md
- Section:
Pilot results - Specific assumption challenged: The source's treatment in “Pilot results” is sufficiently supported for its intended scope.
- Supporting evidence excerpt: “Rank correlation was .6357 for WCAG versus Lab, .9398 for WCAG versus Oklab, and .6791 for Lab versus Oklab. Of 72 pairs, 31 passed 4.5:1 and 47 passed 3:1. The toy induction shift had median 6.1736 and maximum 9.2009 ΔE76. The result establishes metric disagreement in this sample, not perceptual superiority. WCAG con…”
- Reason this opportunity exists: Whether the central claim survives preregistered, independent testing under explicitly bounded conditions.
Unknowns
- Whether the central claim survives preregistered, independent testing under explicitly bounded conditions.
Dependencies
- None; this is foundational work.
Suggested REP and methodology
- Suggested REP:
REP-EX-ITTEN-002-VALIDATION - Methodology: Preregister hypotheses, sampling, exclusion rules, measures, and analysis; reproduce the claimed effect with an independent implementation and report effect sizes and uncertainty.
- Expected outputs: Preregistration, replication dataset, analysis code, effect-size report, and claim-status decision.
- Success criteria: The study has adequate power, reproducible materials, explicit failure criteria, and updates the originating claim regardless of outcome.
- Recommended agent:
validation-research-agent - Estimated effort: Large
- Expected knowledge gained: Whether the central claim survives preregistered, independent testing under explicitly bounded conditions.
Evaluation
| Dimension | Score (1–5) |
|---|---|
| Knowledge gain | 5 |
| Potential impact | 5 |
| Cross-project reuse | 5 |
| Scientific importance | 4 |
| Dependency cost | 4 |
| Implementation difficulty | 3 |
| Frontier score | 493 |
Confidence in this opportunity: moderate. Status: Open.