# rubric floor / always-decline baseline

> Living preprint · as of 2026-10-25 · map node G-rubric-floor (concept) · interim record, not a final result.

**rubric floor / always-decline baseline**

Plain: Because the lowest score is 1, not 0, an app that refuses every question already earns about 0.31 on the raw ratio.

Technical: Always-decline baseline D = 0.306 raw (79 judged declines over 7 runs; v0.2-weighted 0.307). About 61 % of a raw 0.50 is therefore "free".

Read chapter 3, The floor trap: https://r4topunk.github.io/boar-research/research/floor-trap.md

## Facts cited {#facts}

Resolve every [F-…] marker in https://r4topunk.github.io/boar-research/data/facts.json. Each line gives the claim, the number with its metric family, set and status, judge, n, seeds, CI, date and caveat.

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- [F-003] A system that declines every question already scores about 0.31 on the raw ratio, because the rubric never goes below 1 of 5. always-decline raw ratio D = 0.306 (v0.2-weighted 0.307) (judge.v1 ratio) · set v0.1 night runs (dev, development data) · judge Claude Opus (judge.v1, both orders) · n 79 judged declines over 7 runs · seeds UNKNOWN · CI not computed · date 2026-10-02 · caveat: This is why the floor-adjusted ratio, not the raw ratio, is the headline.

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