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The power law repealed: The case for an exponential law of practice

2000· review· en· 745 citations· W2156523753 on OpenAlex· 10.3758/bf03212979

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Machine scores (provisional)

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Opus teacher head0.075
GPT teacher head0.369
Teacher spread
0.294 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation status
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Abstract

No abstract. This is not a gap in this database — OpenAlex has none either. 23.3% of the frame is in this state, and the screen finds HALF as much metaresearch here, so the absence is a measured bias rather than a missing field.

The record

Venue
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
Topic
Motor Control and Adaptation
Field
Neuroscience
Canadian institutions
Queen's University
Funders
Keywords
Exponential functionFunction (biology)Power lawPsychologyPower functionPower (physics)Stretched exponential functionLawStatisticsMathematicsMathematical analysisPhysicsPolitical science
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no