Pith Number

pith:VO3DLF7T

pith:2014:VO3DLF7T4U2BTSZJFUNYFQAZOO

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The persistence of wishful thinking: Response to "Updated thinking on positivity ratios"

Alan D. Sokal, Harris L. Friedman, Nicholas J.L. Brown

arxiv:1409.4837 v1 · 2014-09-17 · stat.AP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VO3DLF7T4U2BTSZJFUNYFQAZOO}

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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	2026-05-18T02:42:38.558883Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

abb63597f3e53419cb292d1b82c0197392fb02d0176674104c6d97a54150d671

Aliases

arxiv: 1409.4837 · arxiv_version: 1409.4837v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1409.4837 · pith_short_12: VO3DLF7T4U2B · pith_short_16: VO3DLF7T4U2BTSZJ · pith_short_8: VO3DLF7T

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VO3DLF7T4U2BTSZJFUNYFQAZOO \
  | 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: abb63597f3e53419cb292d1b82c0197392fb02d0176674104c6d97a54150d671

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "40ea69674fe415ec60bf227373e718a25c9f01859394e8c78d7c5e62738755cc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.AP",
    "submitted_at": "2014-09-17T00:14:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8bbe6c301ad18915970ee5bc1452c25cf6f1474ee2587fdeb7687daf4e85376e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1409.4837",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}