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

Pinned version v1.0 (entry LD06-SL-C06--v1.0) — this page never floats to newer evidence.

This pinned version is also the current version.

Versions:v1.0 · current

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

LD-06 v0.1

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; fixture fixtures/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".