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Oct 23, 2026

A Confidence Floor of 80 Deleted Fermi, Szilard and France. The Page's Score Went Up

A real typewritten scan read at 91.6% average confidence — and spelled Einstein's surname "Binstein". Raising the per-word confidence floor to 80 removed 17 words, 13 of which were correct, kept three of the actual errors, and pushed the reported score to 94.4. Here is why the average is the wrong number to trust and which one to read instead.

Oct 23, 20267 min read0 reactions0 comments