Synthetic Players

Review round

Round 2 — adversarial methods and framing review

v2 → v3 · 2026-07-29

Adversarial methods reviewer + two editorial reviews · 2026-07-29 · manuscript arc: v2 → v3

Archived record

Seven numbered defects, including seat-level intervals nested within episodes (anti-conservative under positive dependence), the Δ = μ₁ − μ₀ identity correction, and estimation noise inside the raw between-persona variance. Specified the five-item zero-call analysis queue (episode-level sensitivity, high-precision family audit, variance correction, count reconciliation; DF microdata deferred) that became the submission analyses. The enduring lesson entered the paper as its boundary quote. This reviewer's role later expanded to specifying analyses — disclosed in the attribution section.