Pith Number

pith:4MRQZYS3

pith:2014:4MRQZYS326A4K6JSG3CRMFPCOT

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A randomized trial in a massive online open course shows people don't know what a statistically significant relationship looks like, but they can learn

Aaron Fisher, G. Brooke Anderson, Jeff Leek, Roger Peng

arxiv:1404.5358 v1 · 2014-04-22 · stat.AP

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4MRQZYS326A4K6JSG3CRMFPCOT}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T02:53:39.197312Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e3230ce25bd781c5793236c51615e274d241ed2a6dcc360e37d32fff61d1adbf

Aliases

arxiv: 1404.5358 · arxiv_version: 1404.5358v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1404.5358 · pith_short_12: 4MRQZYS326A4 · pith_short_16: 4MRQZYS326A4K6JS · pith_short_8: 4MRQZYS3

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/4MRQZYS326A4K6JSG3CRMFPCOT \
  | 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: e3230ce25bd781c5793236c51615e274d241ed2a6dcc360e37d32fff61d1adbf

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bb5f4756c97efba8870cce6ce6eb78b7e1cf3cc36fb64e7b2a4f30f77f545178",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.AP",
    "submitted_at": "2014-04-22T00:29:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "89701f9a4fcca413ea161dbc52953c14d6f23161f29ec6dfb84744cb0ee9c6d4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1404.5358",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}