{
  "role": "editor",
  "decision": "pass",
  "summary": "All mechanical gates pass, all six specialist reviews return pass with no blocking findings, and the SearchDemandBrief is people-first with a distinct evidence gap. The headline rests on the registered adjusted estimate, uncertainty and the bootstrap/HC3 disagreement sit adjacent to the relevant claims, causality and forecast use are disclaimed, and every distribution surface (title, dek, email subject and preview, table and figure captions) stands alone with population, outcome, and comparison frame named.",
  "findings": [
    {
      "severity": "warning",
      "check": "uncertainty_estimand_mismatch",
      "evidence": "The game-level bootstrap intervals for combined points (+2.2 to +4.8) and pass EPA (-0.019 to +0.022) are centered near the unadjusted contrast, not the adjusted estimand, so the two reported uncertainty methods do not target the same quantity.",
      "recommendation": "In a future revision, state in the methods that the bootstrap quantifies the unadjusted venue contrast while HC3 quantifies the adjusted estimand, or bootstrap the adjusted estimate. The current article already discloses the disagreement and rests the conclusion on the registered adjusted estimate, so no change is required before publication."
    },
    {
      "severity": "warning",
      "check": "bootstrap_p_floor",
      "evidence": "The bootstrap p-value of exactly 0.0 for combined points with 4,000 draws implies exact certainty.",
      "recommendation": "Report as < 1/4000 or apply a standard floor in a future revision; not blocking because the article's conclusion rests on the Holm-adjusted HC3 result."
    },
    {
      "severity": "warning",
      "check": "standalone_asset_denominators",
      "evidence": "The figure caption and results table omit the sample sizes (640 condition, 1,487 control, 2,127 comparable), which appear only in the article body.",
      "recommendation": "Add the game counts to the figure caption or a table footnote in a future revision so the shared assets are fully self-contained as screenshots; recorded as a note, not a variant-blocking defect."
    },
    {
      "severity": "note",
      "check": "scope_preservation",
      "evidence": "The limitations list correctly preserves the retrospective-association scope, the non-forecast boundary, and the bootstrap/HC3 disagreement; the statistician requires these remain in the published article.",
      "recommendation": "Do not remove or soften the limitations list during any downstream editing."
    }
  ],
  "artifacts_reviewed": [
    "article",
    "publication_assets",
    "search_demand",
    "specialist_reviews",
    "mechanical_checks"
  ],
  "model": "z-ai/glm-5.3",
  "created_at": "2026-09-03T09:10:56.213063+00:00"
}