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When you submit, the form attaches the current score and confidence for the country and capability you chose.

Submissions are public and start as awaiting review. A maintainer can add a response and signature after review.

Panel estimates never enter a score

A panel reviews selected dimensions from the source-backed evidence and audits the registry. Its estimates do not change the indicator score or confidence.

run 2026-10-03T07-39-51-747Z-in_session2 rounds3 panelistsworking sessiondataset 9.0.1348 of 455 cells carried to 9.3.0full runcoverage โ‰ค 0.5

Each panelist holds a fixed stance

The stance explains why panelists disagree.

In-session one-vendor panel under D154(b) as amended by D155, run on 2026-10-03 by a Claude Code orchestrating session (Claude Opus 5.5). Three panelists, each stance a separate set of contexts: institutionalist on claude-opus-5-5, bottom_up on claude-opus-5-5, wealth_sceptic on claude-sonnet-5-5, all Anthropic, each through Claude Code subagents. Each panelist answered in batches of 25 countries, one fresh context per batch and per round, so no context held two stances and none saw another panelist's text except the anonymised round-1 summary the round-2 prompt carries. Two rounds plus the indicator audit, at the code default scope (maxCoverage 0.5): 455 country-dimension cells across all 125 countries. Prompts are byte-identical to a gateway run's, built by pnpm bench delphi --in-session with prompt version 3; the system rules were given as a file each panelist read first. Every batch confirmed it read every prompt in full and wrote every answer by hand. No call failed and none was rerun into this file; an earlier attempt on prompt version 2 was discarded because panelists condensed prompts. One vendor means the spread measures stance, not vendor, and shared model-family blind spots are hidden by a narrow IQR (D155). An OpenAI panelist through the codex CLI (gpt-5.6-sol) can be added as a follow-up multi-vendor run, which supersedes this one under D155. Estimates are an interpretation layer beside the indicators and never enter score.

StanceModelPanelist id
Institutionalistclaude-opus-5-5institutionalist@claude-opus-5-5
Bottom-up analystclaude-opus-5-5bottom_up@claude-opus-5-5
Wealth scepticclaude-sonnet-5-5wealth_sceptic@claude-sonnet-5-5

Where the panel disagreed

A cell is marked when the middle half of the panel spans more than 25 points.

No cell has an interquartile range above 25 points.

What moved between rounds

A negative IQR shift means the panel narrowed.

How the panel rated each indicator

Each indicator gets a class, a validity rating and a wealth-proxy risk rating. The weakest validity comes first.

IndicatorRegistry classPanel classConstruct validityWealth proxy riskRegistry priorRedundancy votes
Intentional homicide rateOO0.220.680.35none
Business share of R&DII0.220.570.70none
Unemployment rateOO0.230.280.25Long-term unemployment share (1)
Voice and accountabilityPP0.270.750.35none
Scientific articlesOIdisputed0.300.780.40none
High-technology exportsOO0.300.450.40Economic fitness (3)
Income inequalityOIdisputed0.300.350.20none
Regulatory qualityPP0.320.920.60Government effectiveness (3)
Logistics performancePP0.320.770.50Border compliance time to export (3)
Export diversificationCO0.320.530.30New export products (3)
Manufacturing value addedOO0.320.280.20none
Logistics infrastructure qualityPP0.320.800.50Electricity connection speed (1)
Tax revenueOO0.330.630.30none
Adults doing digital tasksCOdisputed0.350.770.40none
Trust in public institutionsPP0.350.400.20none
Resident patent applicationsOO0.350.730.45Resident trademark applications (1), Resident industrial design applications (1)
Resident industrial design applicationsOO0.370.570.30Resident trademark applications (3), Resident patent applications (1)
University spinoutsCO0.370.670.35none
Procedures to start a businessCI0.380.350.15Time to start a business (3)
Control of corruptionPP0.380.870.55Rule of law (3), Bribery incidence (1)
University-industry collaborationCP0.400.720.40Public-private collaboration (1)
Research citation impactOO0.400.580.60none
Economic fitnessOO0.400.720.45High-technology exports (3)
Political polarisationPP0.400.330.05none
Perceived control over lifePP0.420.330.20none
Government effectivenessPP0.420.920.60Regulatory quality (3)
Resident trademark applicationsOO0.420.620.30Resident industrial design applications (3), Resident patent applications (1)
Long-term unemployment shareOO0.420.370.20Unemployment rate (2)
Time to start a businessCI0.430.400.20Procedures to start a business (3)
Court case clearance rateOO0.430.430.20Time to enforce a contract (3)
New public software repositoriesOO0.430.580.70none
Rule of lawPP0.450.870.55Control of corruption (3), Government compliance with the courts (1)
Time to enforce a contractCCdisputed0.450.430.20Court case clearance rate (2)
Human Capital IndexCO0.450.870.50none
Venture dealsCO0.450.680.60Early-stage entrepreneurial activity (2)
Early-stage entrepreneurial activityCOdisputed0.450.330.15Venture deals (1)
Long-horizon research commitmentsCC0.470.420.30none
Border compliance time to exportCCdisputed0.470.550.30Logistics performance (2)
Tolerance of entrepreneurial failurePP0.470.320.10none
Electricity connection speedCCdisputed0.470.480.25Logistics infrastructure quality (1)

Evidence the panel asked for

Panelists name evidence they want to see. The list feeds the collection agenda.

EvidenceMentionsDimensions
government foresight capacity dataset751
government foresight capacity register501
volunteering rates from open microdata491
hostile polarisation measure321
volunteering microdata291
court case clearance rates281
court case clearance rate261
government foresight capacity record241
hostile polarisation measure separating camps from calm231
multi-year public research grant register221
grant register with multi-year award durations211
grant register with multi-year commitments211
hostile-polarisation measure211
v-dem polarization check value for 2023-2025191
long-horizon public research grant register191
grant register with award durations191
hostile polarization measure181
grant register with multi-year awards171
belonging item that reads the same across regimes171
belonging measure151
cross-agency delivery records141
court case clearance rate from case records121
long-term unemployment share121
belonging item comparable across regime classes111
long-term unemployment share from ilostat111
generalised interpersonal trust (a165)111
cooperation beyond the in-group (g007_34_b)111
volunteering rates from an inspectable source101
volunteering rates101
budget execution fidelity101