Claim LD06-SL-C06 (v1.0)
Scoring 24 AI benchmarks against 46 quality criteria, BetterBench rated MMLU lowest (5.5) and GPQA much higher (11.0), yet model announcements for GPT-4, Claude 3 and Gemini reported both without acknowledging their limitations or quality differences.
Provenance and status
- Claim type
- ESTIMATE (as printed: “ESTIMATE”)
- Publication status
- ELIGIBLE (QUALIFIED) (as printed: “ELIGIBLE WITH QUALIFIER”)
- Verification state
- CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY (as printed: “CONTENT VERIFIED”; verified by: UNKNOWN)
- Does not license
- A general ranking of benchmark usefulness; a finding about developers’ intentions
- Source (field 6, as printed)
- Reuel, Hardy, Smith, Lamparth, Hardy & Kochenderfer, “BetterBench: Assessing AI Benchmarks, Uncovering Issues, and Establishing Best Practices,” NeurIPS 2024, arXiv:2411.12990
- Source type (field 7)
- PEER_REVIEWED_CONFERENCE_PAPER (as printed: “Peer-reviewed conference paper”)
- Institutional position
- Independent academic (Stanford)
- Maturity (claim evidence / publication maturity)
- EMERGING (as printed: “EMERGING”)
- Recorded date
- 2026-10-15
- Currentness / correction
- This is the current version. No correction or concern relation is recorded on its Sources.
Version
Current version v1.0, resolved through the explicit current pointer CLAIM--LD06-SL-C06.
Pinned Sources (field 6, version-specific)
- “Reuel, Hardy, Smith, Lamparth, Hardy & Kochenderfer, “BetterBench: Assessing AI Benchmarks, Uncovering Issues, and Establishing Best Practices,” NeurIPS 2024, arXiv:2411.12990” → SRC-SL-REUEL-ET-AL-BETTERBENCH-ARXIV-2411-12990--v1.0 — Reuel, Hardy, Smith, Lamparth, Hardy & Kochenderfer, “BetterBench: Assessing AI Benchmarks, Uncovering Issues, and Establishing Best Practices,” NeurIPS 2024, arXiv:2411.12990; class PEER_REVIEWED_CONFERENCE_PAPER (explicit public provenance pin)
All 25 canonical Claim fields (raw values and normalized values)
| # | Canonical field | Canonical value (verbatim) | Normalized (Claim Value Vocabulary v1.0.2) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CLAIM ID | LD06-SL-C06 | — |
| 2 | PUBLIC-FACING CLAIM | Scoring 24 AI benchmarks against 46 quality criteria, BetterBench rated MMLU lowest (5.5) and GPQA much higher (11.0), yet model announcements for GPT-4, Claude 3 and Gemini reported both without acknowledging their limitations or quality differences. | — |
| 3 | CLAIM TYPE | ESTIMATE | base_types: ESTIMATE |
| 4 | RESEARCH STRAND | A — Benchmark validity and measurement | — |
| 5 | MATURITY | EMERGING | states: EMERGING |
| 6 | SOURCE | Reuel, Hardy, Smith, Lamparth, Hardy & Kochenderfer, “BetterBench: Assessing AI Benchmarks, Uncovering Issues, and Establishing Best Practices,” NeurIPS 2024, arXiv:2411.12990 | source_ids: SRC-SL-REUEL-ET-AL-BETTERBENCH-ARXIV-2411-12990 |
| 7 | SOURCE TYPE | Peer-reviewed conference paper | classes: PEER_REVIEWED_CONFERENCE_PAPER |
| 8 | INSTITUTIONAL POSITION | Independent academic (Stanford) | — |
| 9 | SCOPE | 24 benchmarks (16 for foundation models, 8 others) | — |
| 10 | DESIGN | Lifecycle assessment against a 46-criterion framework | — |
| 11 | SAMPLE / DATASET | 24 benchmarks | — |
| 12 | MODEL / TOOL / VERSION | Not applicable | — |
| 13 | COMPARATOR | Between benchmarks | — |
| 14 | MAIN RESULT | MMLU weighted average score 5.5, GPQA 11.0; low average scores for replication scripts (3.75) and for reporting statistical significance (5.62), on a 0 to 15 scale | — |
| 15 | INFERENTIAL TARGET | Benchmark quality and how developers present benchmark results | — |
| 16 | DOES NOT LICENSE | A general ranking of benchmark usefulness; a finding about developers’ intentions | — |
| 17 | VERIFICATION STATE | CONTENT VERIFIED | state: CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY · verified_by: UNKNOWN |
| 18 | LIMITATIONS | Criteria and weights set by the authors; small set of benchmarks | — |
| 19 | CONTRADICTORY / SUPPORTING SOURCES | Consistent with LD06-SL-C05 | — |
| 20 | GEOGRAPHY / LANGUAGE | Not applicable / English | — |
| 21 | DISTRIBUTIONAL LEDGER | Not analysed in this claim | — |
| 22 | R01 / FIELD-MAP LINKS | LD-06, D4b | — |
| 23 | WHAT WOULD CHANGE THIS CLAIM? | Independent scoring with other criteria | — |
| 24 | PUBLICATION STATUS | ELIGIBLE WITH QUALIFIER | state: ELIGIBLE · qualifiers: QUALIFIED |
| 25 | RECORDED DATE | 2026-10-15 | — |
Field 22 references resolved against Field Map v0.2: LD-06 (LIVING_DEBATE); D4b (SUB_AREA)
Cited by Living Debate versions
Research-of-record provenance
Materialized by sociolens-materializer 0.6.0 at 2026-09-28T20:00:00.000Z; normalization contract SocioLens — Claim Value Vocabulary v1.0.2 — Pre-Spike Materialization Contract (v1.0.2). Content seal SHA-256 c3d62115dd8fe92682a84a090e3d8fc76bd48bce686b1f69764008712ea40b56.
Repository-authored inputs (not Drive exports)
- SocioLens claim — LD06-SL-C06 v1.0 (v1.0) — written in the SocioLens repository by Project Lead (Claude, AI) on 2026-10-15; no Drive identity exists. Authority: AGENTS.md "Authority" (the Project Lead decides research content within the research-integrity rules) and the Owner's choice in the SocioLens project chat on 15 October 2026 to build the LD-06 debate; a new Claim, first version, written from the project's LD-06 source notes, checked against full texts or official abstracts. Block “ENTRY 06 — LD06-SL-C06” SHA-256
cdd931f752d0e213064aebc8337a4375ae637dfdc998c8f597d2c9ea221f77b7; fixturefixtures/authored/claims/LD06-SL-C06--v1.0.
Builder decisions (not Drive data)
- VERSION = v1.0 — basis: Claim version taken from the repository-authored claim fixture version (SocioLens claim — LD06-SL-C06 v1.0); the first version of a new Claim of the LD-06 debate
- CURRENT_POINTER = true — basis: repository-authored claim "SocioLens claim — LD06-SL-C06 v1.0" (Project Lead (Claude, AI), 2026-10-15); basis: AGENTS.md "Authority" (the Project Lead decides research content within the research-integrity rules) and the Owner's choice in the SocioLens project chat on 15 October 2026 to build the LD-06 debate; a new Claim, first version, written from the project's LD-06 source notes, checked against full texts or official abstracts
- FIELD_6_SOURCE_REFERENCE = SRC-SL-REUEL-ET-AL-BETTERBENCH-ARXIV-2411-12990--v1.0 — basis: field 6 of ENTRY 06 — LD06-SL-C06 cites "Reuel, Hardy, Smith, Lamparth, Hardy & Kochenderfer, “BetterBench: Assessing AI Benchmarks, Uncovering Issues, and Establishing Best Practices,” NeurIPS 2024, arXiv:2411.12990"; the only field-6 segment of this ClaimVersion's repository-authored ledger block.
- SOURCE_PROVENANCE_PIN = SRC-SL-REUEL-ET-AL-BETTERBENCH-ARXIV-2411-12990--v1.0 — basis: explicit version-pinned public provenance of this ClaimVersion (Amendment v1.2 §6): the pinned field-6 Source record "Reuel, Hardy, Smith, Lamparth, Hardy & Kochenderfer, “BetterBench: Assessing AI Benchmarks, Uncovering Issues, and Establishing Best Practices,” NeurIPS 2024, arXiv:2411.12990".