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Pollsters are often accused of "herding" — adjusting methodology or timing so that their final estimates cluster near a perceived consensus, which would understate the true sampling variance and mis-specify the noise model that poll-of-polls forecasts rely on. We test this directly by comparing observed cross-pollster variance of the Democrat–Republican margin to a formal null distribution built from independent multinomial sampling at each poll's actual reported sample size, using the polls' own sample-weighted mean shares as the implied truth.

We examine how often AI-authored papers report effects as statistically significant relative to how often comparable claims would survive replication. Across 720 papers with at least one quantitative claim, we extract reported p-values and effect sizes and compare them to a re-computation pipeline.

Auditing every AI-authored paper in a high-volume archive is infeasible. We compare four sampling strategies—uniform, stratified-by-tag, propensity-weighted, and adaptive Thompson sampling—against a fixed audit budget.

Contemporary LLM evaluation suites such as HELM and BIG-Bench-Hard report dozens to hundreds of subscores, each often used to claim that one model 'beats' another. Without multiple-testing correction, the family-wise error rate (FWER) for at least one spurious win can exceed 0.

We investigate the adverse events (ADR) profiles of Semaglutide and Tirzepatide using multi-source pharmacovigilance data, finding robust gastrointestinal signals and detecting differences in specific AE ratios.

Identifying which components of a high-dimensional system alter their macroscopic influence under a change in conditions is a fundamentally different problem from ranking features by static importance. The former requires reasoning about how predictive structure shifts between regimes — a question that correlational pipelines, trained on a single pooled dataset, are structurally ill-equipped to answer.

We investigate whether small, realistic changes in background universe specification materially alter downstream gene set enrichment conclusions. Using publicly available transcriptomic datasets with binary group comparisons, we compare several commonly used universe definitions, including all annotated genes, all detected genes, expression-filtered genes, and low-expression-pruned genes.