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 "id": "plate-xxiv",
 "number": "XXIV",
 "title": "The Ladder",
 "act": {
  "number": "VII",
  "title": "The Measure"
 },
 "corpus_scope": "ICLR 2026 · official ratings joined at display time",
 "question": "Why is a low score low, and why is a high score high — what does each rating on the ladder actually argue?",
 "page_url": "https://atlas-of-judgment.pages.dev/",
 "figures": [
  {
   "id": "fig-24a",
   "title": "The ladder: verdict mix per rating (ICLR 2026, whose ratings run 0–10 in steps of two)",
   "deck": "Even a perfect 10 is one-third objection (35% negative units); a 0 is 91% condemnation. The mix, not just the amount, is the score.",
   "dom_host": "#ladder",
   "claims": [
    {
     "id": "24a-ends",
     "statement": "Even a perfect 10 is one-third objection (35% negative units); a 0 is 91% condemnation.",
     "value": {
      "quantity": [
       0.35,
       0.91
      ],
      "unit": "share_negative_units",
      "rating_10": 0.35,
      "rating_0": 0.91
     },
     "source_island": "score-data.json",
     "source_path": "by_rating[]",
     "derivation": "SCORE.by_rating['10'].valence.negative and SCORE.by_rating['0'].valence.negative",
     "recompute": "scripts/build_score_data.py",
     "dom_ref": "data-lad24a=\"ends\"",
     "verified": "claim recomputed from source island, 2026-08-25",
     "caveat_refs": []
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "fig-24b",
   "title": "What a 2 argues vs what an 8 argues (share of units per standard)",
   "deck": "The standards swap with the verdict: novelty and fair comparison belong to the 2 (18% vs 12%, 10% vs 6% of units), merit recognition to the 8 (7% → 29%).",
   "dom_host": "#ladder-cmp",
   "claims": [
    {
     "id": "24b-swap",
     "statement": "Novelty and fair comparison belong to the 2 (18% vs 12%, 10% vs 6% of units), merit recognition to the 8 (7% → 29%).",
     "value": {
      "quantity": [
       0.18,
       0.12,
       0.1,
       0.06,
       0.07,
       0.29
      ],
      "unit": "share_of_units_by_rating_and_standard",
      "novelty_standard_r2_r8": [
       0.18,
       0.12
      ],
      "fair_comparison_r2_r8": [
       0.1,
       0.06
      ],
      "merit_recognition_r2_r8": [
       0.07,
       0.29
      ]
     },
     "source_island": "score-data.json",
     "source_path": "by_rating[].standards",
     "derivation": "DEPTH standards share for rating 2 vs. rating 8, for novelty_standard, fair_comparison, and merit_recognition",
     "recompute": "scripts/build_score_depth.py",
     "dom_ref": "data-lad24b=\"swap\"",
     "verified": "claim recomputed from source island; pointer corrected from score-depth.json, 2026-08-26",
     "caveat_refs": []
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "fig-24c",
   "title": "The relocation of scrutiny: share of reviews that inspect each object, per rating",
   "deck": "Scrutiny relocates rather than shrinks: novelty falls 20% → 9% and baselines 42% → 29% up the ladder — theory, method design and compute rise.",
   "dom_host": "#cov-hm",
   "claims": [
    {
     "id": "24c-fall",
     "statement": "Novelty falls 20% → 9% and baselines 42% → 29% up the ladder.",
     "value": {
      "quantity": [
       0.2,
       0.09,
       0.42,
       0.29
      ],
      "unit": "share_of_reviews_inspecting",
      "novelty_r2_r8": [
       0.2,
       0.09
      ],
      "baselines_r2_r8": [
       0.42,
       0.29
      ]
     },
     "source_island": "score-depth.json",
     "source_path": "coverage_by_rating[]",
     "derivation": "DEPTH cov2[o].touch vs. cov8[o].touch for o in {novelty, baselines_ablations}",
     "recompute": "scripts/build_score_depth.py",
     "dom_ref": "data-lad24c=\"fall\"",
     "verified": "claim recomputed from source island, 2026-08-25",
     "caveat_refs": []
    },
    {
     "id": "24c-rise",
     "statement": "Theory, method design and compute rise up the ladder.",
     "value": {
      "quantity": null,
      "unit": "directional_sign_positive",
      "objects": [
       "theory",
       "method_design",
       "compute_cost"
      ]
     },
     "source_island": "score-depth.json",
     "source_path": "coverage_by_rating[]",
     "derivation": "DEPTH cov8[o].touch / cov2[o].touch > 1 for o in {theory, method_design, compute_cost}",
     "recompute": "scripts/build_score_depth.py",
     "dom_ref": "data-lad24c=\"rise\"",
     "verified": "claim recomputed from source island, 2026-08-25",
     "caveat_refs": []
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "fig-24d",
   "title": "Same paper, split verdict: share of papers where each side condemns the object",
   "deck": "On the same paper, both sides inspect theory and method at identical rates and split only on the verdict — novelty is the weapon only the low side draws: 21% vs 4%.",
   "dom_host": "#split-vd",
   "claims": [
    {
     "id": "24d-novelty-weapon",
     "statement": "Novelty is the weapon only the low side draws: 21% vs 4%.",
     "value": {
      "quantity": [
       0.21,
       0.04
      ],
      "unit": "share_condemning",
      "low_side": 0.21,
      "high_side": 0.04
     },
     "source_island": "score-depth.json",
     "source_path": "split_verdict[]",
     "derivation": "share of low-rated (2) vs. high-rated (8) co-reviewers condemning novelty, across the 1,789 papers rated both 2 and 8",
     "recompute": "scripts/build_score_depth.py",
     "dom_ref": "data-lad24d=\"novelty-weapon\"",
     "verified": "claim recomputed from source island, 2026-08-25",
     "caveat_refs": []
    }
   ]
  }
 ],
 "caveats": [],
 "links": {
  "recompute_scripts": [
   "scripts/build_score_depth.py",
   "scripts/build_score_data.py"
  ],
  "data": [
   "/api/v1/data/score-depth.json",
   "/api/v1/data/score-data.json"
  ],
  "related_plates": [
   "plate-vi",
   "plate-xxi"
  ]
 }
}