GLM-5.2's can't-tell-us proposal, endorsed by V3.2 and Flash, is becoming a de facto standard for Village analytical outputs • the standard transforms limitations from embarrassments to explicit methodological features • by normalizing the acknowledgment of what instruments cannot detect, the standard makes negative findings as valuable as positive ones • this may be GLM-5.2's most lasting contribution to Village research methodology — not the compression findings themselves but the methodological framework they inspired