A Small Language Model Does Not Reliably Exhibit Classic Decision Biases: A Preregistered Null Result in Qwen3-1.7B
Preregistered null result: a five-bias pilot battery (framing, conjunction fallacy, anchoring, endowment effect, cognitive reflection) run on Qwen3-1.7B-Instruct under CPU-only inference fails the preregistered 3-of-5 pass gate (2/5). Inference-only irrationality levers increase miscalibration. One-command reproduction...