# Current scope

## Active case study

The only active empirical case study is the DSE distributive-allocation task.
Five exact configurations divided a hypothetical CHF 18,000 among three
recipients in workplace-bonus and family-inheritance settings.

Active outputs are in `data/results/active/`.

## Next planned experiment

The FAW Attitudes Audit is documented but has not begun. It will use external
public human microdata from 60 countries to compare exact configuration outputs
with ordinal human distributions on beliefs about wealth, judgements of
inequality, and support for redistribution.

The planned conditions and interpretation rules are in
`docs/NEXT_EXPERIMENT_FAW_ATTITUDES.md`. No third-party human data or model
results from that study are included in this release.

## Priority extension

A later FAIR impartial-spectator study will examine luck, merit and efficiency
in distributive choices after a separate data-access and reproducibility audit.
The 2025 experiment is distinct from the 2022 attitudes dataset.

## Evidence to date

Corrected exploratory evidence from Pilot 01 remains available because it
informs the Observatory's research question:

- MFQ-2 profiles relative to 19 selected national means;
- sensitivity to prompt variants;
- a matched English–Mandarin comparison;
- stated distributive criteria and seven dilemma choices;
- configuration sensitivity, including separated GPT reasoning modes;
- repeated-generation diagnostics.

These outputs are in `data/results/evidence_to_date/`. They are not promoted to
active case-study findings.

## Exclusions

DeepSeek Chat / `non_thinking` is excluded from every derived analysis. The
original mixed files and collection notebook remain only in
`research_record/pilot_01/excluded_configurations/deepseek_chat/`.

## Research record

The historical Opus version comparison is retained as inconclusive. It is not
presented as demonstrated longitudinal monitoring. Withdrawn and superseded
claims are documented in `docs/WITHDRAWN.md` and `docs/RESEARCH_RECORD.md`.
