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  "article_slug": "shortcut-feature-audits",
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      "id": "correlation-risks",
      "kind": "analytical_curve",
      "caption": "Exact author-constructed binary-rule errors, Pr(C=Y)=.8 and varying Pr(S=Y)=p. No neural network is trained.",
      "x": {
        "name": "Correlate agreement p",
        "values": [
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          0.5,
          0.75,
          0.9,
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      },
      "series": [
        {
          "name": "Content-rule error",
          "values": [
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            0.2,
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            0.2,
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        },
        {
          "name": "Correlate-rule error",
          "values": [
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    },
    {
      "id": "metadata-dilution",
      "kind": "analytical_curve",
      "caption": "Author-constructed true rare-group prevalence .05, true group errors zero/one, independent symmetric metadata flips. Exact expectations, not finite-sample estimates.",
      "x": {
        "name": "Metadata flip probability eta",
        "values": [
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          0.1,
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      "series": [
        {
          "name": "Observed worst-group error",
          "values": [
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            0.1739130434782609,
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        {
          "name": "True worst-group error",
          "values": [
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            1.0,
            1.0,
            1.0,
            1.0,
            1.0,
            1.0
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        }
      ]
    }
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  "numeric_data_provenance": "Computed and checked by the corresponding standalone standard-library script; constructed, not empirical."
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