{
  "lab_id":"LAB-005","title":"Double-Counting Failure Demo","version":"1.0","date":"2026-08-24",
  "related_modules":["Compo 7.03","Compo 6.03"],
  "research_question":"Can correlated representations of one clearance evidence distort candidate ranking when voted as independent score components?",
  "hypothesis":"A scorer that independently votes raw clearance, normalized clearance, absolute distance and tension will produce a materially different ranking from a canonical scorer with one explicit local-edge-fit target.",
  "independent_variables":["candidate clearance evidence","scorer model"],"controlled_variables":["candidate set","seed","target","representation family"],
  "dependent_metrics":["wrong_score","canonical_score","rank","top10_overlap","rank_disagreement"],
  "dataset":{"type":"SYNTHETIC","case_count":120,"seed":24082026},
  "canonical_impact":{"change_required":"NO","affected_modules":[],"recommendations":["Keep correlated representations in one scoring family; do not grant independent votes without explicit evidence independence."]},
  "reproducibility":{"deterministic":true,"seeded":true,"environment":"PowerShell 7+","command":"pwsh -File run_lab_005.ps1"}
}