UNCALIBRATED

The verdict a plausibility screen returns for a group too small to read without the row under test, fewer than four other rows. It is reported per group, never for the whole column. No figure resting on an unscreened column may be described as certified, and a screen that refuses everywhere never renders like one that ran.

Principle 11 · Reconciliation proves arithmetic, not plausibility

Where does UNCALIBRATED come from?

Principle 11 of the Kymira doctrine, Reconciliation proves arithmetic, not plausibility. UNCALIBRATED is the name the doctrine gives to what that principle requires in practice.

What failure is UNCALIBRATED named after?

The screen calibrated by its own target. An outlier ceiling derived from the data being screened, so the 100x slip became its own ceiling and certified clean.

What does it look like on a real file?

A plan with three other rows is too small for a leave one out read, so the screen names that group and not the column.

Not for

Not a pass. An UNCALIBRATED group is an unscreened group, and the page has to say which ones went unscreened.

Nearest terms

Plausibility screenA pass over every value column, prices and rates and amounts and equally the quantity, seat,...Leave-one-out basisScreening a value against its own group's distribution computed with that value excluded Unproven, computed, certifiedThe three states a figure can be in on a page

Last updated 2026-09-02 · Dylan, founder · one of 40 terms in the Kymira glossary, each one named after something we watched go wrong in a real build or in our own audits.

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