Pith Number

pith:3IGHBMQ5

pith:2026:3IGHBMQ5VSQV3DR2X6R2RLDHNQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Discovering Misconceptions and Misunderstandings From Administrations of Research-Designed Multiple Choice Instruments

Aaron Adair, David Pritchard, John Stewart, Martin Segado

arxiv:2606.08986 v1 · 2026-06-08 · physics.ed-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3IGHBMQ5VSQV3DR2X6R2RLDHNQ}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-06-09T02:07:52.038863Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

da0c70b21daca15d8e3abfa3a8ac676c0ded603ac6264cfe731b2a0fa01cf9e3

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.08986 · arxiv_version: 2606.08986v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.08986 · pith_short_12: 3IGHBMQ5VSQV · pith_short_16: 3IGHBMQ5VSQV3DR2 · pith_short_8: 3IGHBMQ5

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/3IGHBMQ5VSQV3DR2X6R2RLDHNQ \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: da0c70b21daca15d8e3abfa3a8ac676c0ded603ac6264cfe731b2a0fa01cf9e3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2f9de97a55de74ed70f8094bfda32f01075ffb8b1f0bde1f07f88638cb548f74",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.ed-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-08T03:31:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "60166308aec118f0faa08ff97b44afc29aaf02fbb65e2b7ecbcd003f82229d49"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.08986",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}