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Confirm the round with recruiting first. This is an original practice exercise, not a claim that a specific company uses this exact prompt.
Protocol
- Run one control and record the exact observation without interpretation.
- Write three competing hypotheses that predict different results.
- Change one factor at a time before testing interactions.
- Use controls or repeats where variance could produce a false pattern.
- Find one boundary where the leading claim stops holding.
- Present the claim, evidence, uncertainty, and next discriminating experiment in five minutes.
Deliverables
- A probe table with predictions and observations.
- One interaction effect and one negative result.
- A bounded behavioral claim, not an architecture guess.
- A five-minute research readout.
Graduation gates
Every claim has a probe that could have falsified it.
Observation and interpretation remain separate.
The readout exposes uncertainty and boundary conditions.
The next experiment is chosen by expected information gain.