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Major changes (per partner red-pen + user decision): - Delete entire accountant-level analysis (III.J, IV.E, Tables VI/VII/VIII, Fig 4) -- cross-year pooling assumption unjustified, removes the implicit "habitually stamps = always stamps" reading. - Renumber sections III.J/K/L (was K/L/M) and IV.E/F/G/H/I (was F/G/H/I/J). - Title: "Three-Method Convergent Thresholding" -> "Replication-Dominated Calibration" (the three diagnostics do NOT converge at signature level). - Operational cosine cut anchored on whole-sample Firm A P7.5 (cos > 0.95). - Three statistical diagnostics (Hartigan/Beta/BD-McCrary) reframed as descriptive characterisation, not threshold estimators. - Firm A replication-dominated framing: 3 evidence strands -> 2. - Discussion limitation list: drop accountant-level cross-year pooling and BD/McCrary diagnostic; add auditor-year longitudinal tracking as future work. - Tone-shift: "we do not claim / do not derive" -> "we find / motivates". Reference verification (independent web-search audit of all 41 refs): - Fix [5] author hallucination: Hadjadj et al. -> Kao & Wen (real authors of Appl. Sci. 10:11:3716; report at paper/reference_verification_v3.md). - Polish [16] [21] [22] [25] (year/volume/page-range/model-name). Gemini 2.5 Pro peer review (Minor Revision verdict, A-F all positive): - Neutralize script-path references in tables/appendix -> "supplementary materials". - Move conflict-of-interest declaration from III-L to new Declarations section before References (paper_a_declarations_v3.md). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>