Pith Number

pith:LVUIPCSK

pith:2017:LVUIPCSKHQJGJIM2MD3LDQRT3O

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Crowdsourcing accurately and robustly predicts Supreme Court decisions

Daniel Martin Katz, Josh Blackman, Michael James Bommarito II

arxiv:1712.03846 v1 · 2017-12-11 · physics.soc-ph · cs.SI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LVUIPCSKHQJGJIM2MD3LDQRT3O}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T00:28:19.760464Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5d68878a4a3c1264a19a60f6b1c233db8fd1b0b1347d4374bf58521a53683d48

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.03846 · arxiv_version: 1712.03846v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.03846 · pith_short_12: LVUIPCSKHQJG · pith_short_16: LVUIPCSKHQJGJIM2 · pith_short_8: LVUIPCSK

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/LVUIPCSKHQJGJIM2MD3LDQRT3O \
  | 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: 5d68878a4a3c1264a19a60f6b1c233db8fd1b0b1347d4374bf58521a53683d48

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2acd40b9179af59afd67d0223dbfa4ba2891d1a6b7b9133a62cbf1a2c3329702",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.SI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-11T15:46:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2f9f7f2ecbadea92b2b3d77697c908e680d3c318e768a0e19ae61432809b1b98"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.03846",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}