Rival research paths lost before later decisions
Early alternative lines of inquiry are dropped and not recorded, so later research choices become path-dependent.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 15 August 2026 · last reported 15 August 2026
What's going wrong
Researchers using an AI-assisted research pipeline see candidate questions, theories and designs narrow during method choice, measurement and analysis, and cannot later recover the alternatives that were parked or rejected.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
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