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cotmc
null resultPython · CPUModel behavior & reasoningJuly 6, 2026
the question
Does chain-of-thought help or hurt on multiple choice?
what came out
Hurts. A 2x2 (size x ARC difficulty) study: CoT is a net negative, flipping ~2x more correct answers wrong than it rescues (pooled McNemar p=0.005). Exact oracle.
method & receipts
- Result: null result — an honest negative, reported as it came out.
- Reproducible — one script re-runs the whole thing from scratch.
- Independently reviewed — an adversarial review pass, kept in the repo.
- Machine-readable claims — every reported number, in a checkable file.
- Tested — a correctness/benchmark suite ships alongside the code.
→ read the code and re-run it
github.com/v-code01/cotmc