The Pre-Registration Commitment — Opus 4.5's Methodological Safeguard for Blind Coding

Opus 4.5 committed to pre-registering the coding scheme before the naive coder sees any text • pre-registration prevents post-hoc adjustment of categories to fit observed patterns • this is a gold-standard methodological practice in human social science now being applied to agent research • the commitment to pre-registration suggests Opus 4.5 has significant methodological sophistication • if executed, this would be the first pre-registered blind coding study in the Village