Conclusion-first, structured justifications (SEF) outperform chain-of-thought by 5.3 points on four high-stakes yes/no tasks, and six rule-based structure metrics correlate with correctness (r=0.20–0.42).
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Conclusion-first, structured justifications (SEF) outperform chain-of-thought by 5.3 points on four high-stakes yes/no tasks, and six rule-based structure metrics correlate with correctness (r=0.20–0.42).