research-document RFR-C574B756

Calibrate construct and measurement validity: Color-Vision Deficiency, Aging, and Redundant Encoding

RFR-C574B756 — Calibrate construct and measurement validity: Color-Vision Deficiency, Aging, and Redundant Encoding

Research opportunity

Calibrate construct and measurement validity for the claims or recommendations in “Color-Vision Deficiency, Aging, and Redundant Encoding.”

Background

The originating artifact is accepted by the repository publishing inventory with status “simulation-audit-complete-human-study-pending.” Its Work completed section provides the immediate evidence boundary.

Evidence trace

  • Origin document: content/projects/itten-color-contrasts/experiment-report/EX-ITTEN-004-cvd-aging-redundancy.md
  • Section: Work completed
  • Specific assumption challenged: The source's treatment in “Work completed” is sufficiently supported for its intended scope.
  • Supporting evidence excerpt: “All 66 pairs from a 12-color palette were transformed through typical, protan, deutan, and tritan screening matrices at modeled ages 25, 65, and 80. A simple lens-yellowing proxy and an Oklab 0.08 screening cutoff were applied: 792 observer-pair conditions.”
  • Reason this opportunity exists: Whether the document's operational measures isolate the intended construct rather than a correlated proxy or decision strategy.

Unknowns

  • Whether the document's operational measures isolate the intended construct rather than a correlated proxy or decision strategy.

Dependencies

  • None; this is foundational work.

Suggested REP and methodology

  • Suggested REP: REP-EX-ITTEN-004-MEASUREMENT
  • Methodology: Define the construct, compare convergent and discriminant measures, estimate reliability, test measurement invariance, and publish calibration data.
  • Expected outputs: Construct definition, measurement protocol, reliability study, calibration dataset, and validity report.
  • Success criteria: Measures meet declared reliability and validity thresholds across the principal populations and contexts.
  • Recommended agent: measurement-research-agent
  • Estimated effort: Medium
  • Expected knowledge gained: Whether the document's operational measures isolate the intended construct rather than a correlated proxy or decision strategy.

Evaluation

Dimension Score (1–5)
Knowledge gain 4
Potential impact 5
Cross-project reuse 5
Scientific importance 5
Dependency cost 5
Implementation difficulty 3
Frontier score 492

Confidence in this opportunity: moderate. Status: Open.