Nine hundred drawings from memory, with the pre-registration and analysis plan

Origin: They Buried, with a commissioned statistician
Dated: March–May 2026
Extent: 902 pages
Status: accepted
Redactions: Participant identifiers removed at source by the panel.

Chain of custody

Pre-registered publicly on 4 March 2026, before recruitment, and not amended. The analysis plan was written by a statistician who took no part in recruitment or scoring. All nine hundred drawings are published — the whole set, not a selection, including the ones that are unreadable.

Held by: They Buried; published in full and reusable

Excerpt

PRE-REGISTRATION · 4 MARCH 2026 · NOT AMENDED
  icons: 5 (listed)         control: clock face
  shown to participant before drawing: NOTHING
  scoring: binary, specific-error present/absent, two scorers, blind
  disagreement rule: third scorer, and both original scores published
  we will publish the result whichever way it falls

Transcribed by the data desk. Line breaks follow the original. Bracketed matter is ours.

Editor's note

The control condition is the reason this document exists. An outlet reported our numbers as evidence of an altered timeline without mentioning that the control returned 4 per cent random, unshared error.

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