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  "id": "plate-xii",
  "number": "XII",
  "title": "The Verdicts",
  "act": {
    "number": "III",
    "title": "The Law"
  },
  "corpus_scope": "ICLR 2026 · 410,586 units",
  "question": "Which objects of scrutiny are judged almost only in the negative, and which criticism arrives with no way forward?",
  "page_url": "https://atlas-of-judgment.pages.dev/",
  "figures": [
    {
      "id": "fig-12a",
      "title": "Verdict mix per object, sorted by negativity",
      "deck": "Positioning work — related work at 88% negative, novelty at 82% — is judged almost only in the negative.",
      "dom_host": "#vprofile",
      "claims": [
        {
          "id": "12a-positioning",
          "statement": "The positioning objects — related work and novelty — are almost never written about except to criticise: 88% and 82% of their units are negative.",
          "value": {
            "quantity": [
              0.8765,
              0.8225
            ],
            "unit": "share_negative_of_object_units"
          },
          "source_island": "viz-data.json",
          "source_path": "triples[]",
          "derivation": "summing all 410,586 2026 units by object: related_work is 9,033/10,306 = 87.65% negative, novelty is 9,409/11,440 = 82.25% negative",
          "recompute": "scripts/build_unit_viz_data.py",
          "dom_ref": "data-vp12a=\"positioning\"",
          "verified": "checked against shipped JSON, 2026-08-25",
          "caveat_refs": []
        },
        {
          "id": "12-own-words-flat",
          "statement": "The share of units grounded in the reviewer's own explicit words is flat across all twelve objects (17–22%) — checked and retired from the chart rather than drawn.",
          "value": {
            "quantity": [
              0.17,
              0.22
            ],
            "unit": "share_reviewer_explicit"
          },
          "source_island": "viz-data.json",
          "source_path": "obj_extras",
          "derivation": "reviewer_explicit / n per object (obj_extras[o].reviewer_explicit / obj_extras[o].n), range across the twelve objects",
          "recompute": "scripts/build_unit_viz_data.py",
          "dom_ref": null,
          "verified": "D10 number audit, 2026-08-24",
          "caveat_refs": []
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "fig-12b",
      "title": "Criticism that arrives with no fix at all",
      "deck": "37% of novelty criticism offers no way forward — two to four times any other object.",
      "dom_host": "#rx",
      "claims": [
        {
          "id": "12b-novelty-nofix",
          "statement": "Novelty criticism is also the least actionable, alone: 37% of it arrives with no fix, two to four times the no-fix share of any other object (8–18%).",
          "value": {
            "quantity": 0.37,
            "unit": "share_of_object_criticism_without_fix",
            "object": "novelty"
          },
          "source_island": "viz-data.json",
          "source_path": "obj_extras",
          "derivation": "share of novelty's negative units lacking a suggested-fix field (1 − with_improvement/n), compared against 8–18% for the other eleven objects",
          "recompute": "scripts/build_unit_viz_data.py",
          "dom_ref": "data-vp12b=\"novelty-nofix\"",
          "verified": "D10 number audit, 2026-08-24",
          "caveat_refs": [
            "fix-not-fixability"
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "caveats": [
    {
      "id": "fix-not-fixability",
      "text": "\"Comes with a fix\" is a property of what the reviewer wrote, not of whether the problem is fixable — though for novelty the two are hard to separate: a reviewer who thinks a contribution too small often has no repair to offer.",
      "scope": "Fig. 12b no-fix shares",
      "verified_by": null
    }
  ],
  "links": {
    "recompute_scripts": [
      "scripts/build_unit_viz_data.py"
    ],
    "data": [
      "/api/v1/data/viz-data.json"
    ],
    "related_plates": [
      "plate-i",
      "plate-vii"
    ]
  }
}