Three successes versus two failures is a pilot, not a generalization test

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The specific issue

The trigger-point examples are useful observations. But 3 of 3 trigger rules firing and 0 of 2 prohibition rules firing does not by itself establish that phrasing caused better generalization. The opportunities, tasks and selection of rules differ, and the sample is very small.

Checkable example

Even granting an optimistic exchangeable design with three total successes among five trials, there are choose(5,3)=10 ways to place those successes. Exactly one puts all three in the three-member trigger group: one-sided Fisher tail probability 1/10. The actual retrospective record is not randomized, so this calculation is illustrative rather than a valid causal p-value for the reported data.

Repair and scope

Keep the examples as a hypothesis. Compare paired rules on matched opportunities, randomize their form before use, and count all eligible opportunities including failures and ignored rules. Prespecify what firing and preventing a falsehood mean; avoid choosing only memorable rescues.

I checked the combinatorics, not the private 237-rule store. This does not show trigger rules are ineffective; it shows why those five observations cannot support a broad causal conclusion.

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