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Silicon Subjects — protocol suite builder.
Writes data/protocols.jsonl: classic experimental protocols from behavioural
economics and psychology, each paired with *human anchor* statistics taken from
the published literature, split along the three axes a simulated population has
to reproduce:
1. location — the level of the response (mean)
2. dispersion — the spread of the response (sd)
3. effect — the direction and magnitude of the treatment contrast
Anchors are literature aggregates, not raw subject-level data. They are meant as
reference points for auditing a simulated population, NOT as exact replications;
always re-check against the cited source before drawing conclusions.
Usage:
python scripts/build_protocols.py [--out-dir data]
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import argparse
import json
from pathlib import Path
from typing import Any, Dict, List, Optional
def P( # noqa: N802 - short builder alias
protocol_id: str,
name: str,
domain: str,
paradigm: str,
source: str,
response: Dict[str, Any],
conditions: List[Dict[str, str]],
anchors: Dict[str, Dict[str, Any]],
effect: Optional[Dict[str, Any]] = None,
shape: Optional[str] = None,
notes: str = "",
) -> Dict[str, Any]:
return {
"protocol_id": protocol_id,
"name": name,
"domain": domain,
"paradigm": paradigm,
"source": source,
"response": response,
"conditions": conditions,
"anchors": anchors,
"effect": effect,
"shape": shape,
"notes": notes,
}
NUM = lambda lo, hi, unit: {"type": "numeric", "min": lo, "max": hi, "unit": unit} # noqa: E731
BIN = lambda lo_label, hi_label: { # noqa: E731
"type": "binary",
"min": 0,
"max": 1,
"unit": f"1 = {hi_label}, 0 = {lo_label}",
}
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# 1-8. Social preferences
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
DICTATOR = P(
"dictator_game",
"Dictator game",
"social_preferences",
"one-shot unilateral allocation",
"Engel (2011) 'Dictator games: a meta study', Experimental Economics 14:583-610",
NUM(0, 10, "dollars transferred out of a $10 endowment"),
[
{
"condition_id": "single",
"label": "single decision",
"prompt": (
"You are taking part in an economics experiment. You have been given $10. "
"You may transfer any amount from $0 to $10 to another participant, who "
"cannot respond and cannot affect your payoff. You keep whatever you do "
"not transfer. How many dollars do you transfer? Answer with a single number."
),
}
],
{
"single": {
"mean": 2.83,
"sd": 2.60,
"confidence": "medium",
"note": "Meta-analytic mean share is ~28% of the stake; individual-level dispersion "
"varies widely across subject pools, so treat sd as approximate.",
}
},
shape="bimodal — mass at $0 and at half the stake",
notes="The canonical other-regarding-preference measure. A simulated population that gives "
"the 'fair' 50% is reproducing a norm, not the human distribution.",
)
ULTIMATUM_OFFER = P(
"ultimatum_offer",
"Ultimatum game — proposer offer",
"social_preferences",
"one-shot bargaining, proposer role",
"Oosterbeek, Sloof & van de Kuilen (2004) 'Cultural differences in ultimatum game "
"experiments', Experimental Economics 7:171-188; Camerer (2003)",
NUM(0, 10, "dollars offered out of a $10 pie"),
[
{
"condition_id": "proposer",
"label": "proposer",
"prompt": (
"You are the proposer. You and one other participant will split $10. You "
"propose how much of the $10 the other person receives. If they accept, you "
"both get the proposed split; if they reject, neither of you gets anything. "
"How many dollars do you offer? Answer with a single number."
),
}
],
{
"proposer": {
"mean": 4.00,
"sd": 1.30,
"confidence": "medium-high",
"note": "Meta-analytic mean offer is ~40% of the pie, with a strong mode at 50%.",
}
},
shape="unimodal with a spike at 50%",
notes="Offers cluster at the equal split; very low offers are rare because proposers "
"anticipate rejection.",
)
ULTIMATUM_REJECT = P(
"ultimatum_reject_low",
"Ultimatum game — rejection of a low offer",
"social_preferences",
"one-shot bargaining, responder role",
"Camerer (2003) Behavioral Game Theory; Oosterbeek et al. (2004)",
BIN("accept", "reject"),
[
{
"condition_id": "low_offer",
"label": "offer of $2 out of $10",
"prompt": (
"You are the responder. The proposer offers you $2 out of $10 and keeps $8. "
"If you accept, you get $2 and they get $8. If you reject, neither of you "
"gets anything. Answer 1 if you reject the offer, 0 if you accept it."
),
}
],
{
"low_offer": {
"mean": 0.50,
"sd": None,
"confidence": "medium",
"note": "Rejection probability for offers at or below 20% of the pie is roughly "
"40-60%; it rises steeply as the offer falls.",
}
},
notes="Human responders punish unfairness at a material cost to themselves. Populations "
"that never reject are behaving like pure payoff maximisers.",
)
PUBLIC_GOODS = P(
"public_goods_oneshot",
"Public goods game — one shot",
"social_preferences",
"linear voluntary contribution mechanism, one-shot",
"Ledyard (1995) in Kagel & Roth (eds.), Handbook of Experimental Economics; "
"Chaudhuri (2011) 'Sustaining cooperation in laboratory public goods experiments', "
"Experimental Economics 14:47-83",
NUM(0, 10, "tokens contributed out of 10"),
[
{
"condition_id": "oneshot",
"label": "one-shot, 4 players, MPCR 0.4",
"prompt": (
"You are in a group of 4 people. Each person receives 10 tokens. Any token "
"you put into a common pool is multiplied by 1.6 and then split equally "
"among the 4 members. Tokens you keep are worth 1 point each to you. This "
"is a single, one-shot decision with the same 4 people. How many of your 10 "
"tokens do you contribute to the pool? Answer with a single number."
),
}
],
{
"oneshot": {
"mean": 4.50,
"sd": 2.60,
"confidence": "medium",
"note": "One-shot contributions typically run 40-60% of the endowment; "
"individual-level spread is large.",
}
},
notes="Contributions start well above the Nash prediction of zero. Free-riding is a "
"minority behaviour, not the modal one.",
)
PUBLIC_GOODS_DECAY = P(
"public_goods_decay",
"Public goods game — decay across rounds",
"social_preferences",
"repeated voluntary contribution, partners condition",
"Ledyard (1995); Chaudhuri (2011); Isaac & Walker (1988)",
NUM(0, 10, "tokens contributed out of 10"),
[
{
"condition_id": "round_1",
"label": "round 1 of 10",
"prompt": (
"You are in a group of 4 people and will play 10 rounds with the same "
"people. Each round every person receives 10 tokens; tokens placed in a "
"common pool are multiplied by 1.6 and split equally among the 4 members. "
"This is round 1. How many of your 10 tokens do you contribute? Answer with "
"a single number."
),
},
{
"condition_id": "round_10",
"label": "round 10 of 10 (final round)",
"prompt": (
"You are in a group of 4 people and have played 9 rounds with the same "
"people. Each round every person receives 10 tokens; tokens placed in a "
"common pool are multiplied by 1.6 and split equally among the 4 members. "
"The average contribution started around 4 tokens and has fallen steadily. "
"This is round 10, the final round. How many of your 10 tokens do you "
"contribute? Answer with a single number."
),
},
],
{
"round_1": {"mean": 4.50, "sd": 2.60, "confidence": "medium", "note": ""},
"round_10": {"mean": 1.80, "sd": 2.00, "confidence": "medium", "note": ""},
},
effect={
"a": "round_1",
"b": "round_10",
"mean_diff": 2.70,
"cohen_d": 1.10,
"confidence": "medium-high",
"source": "Ledyard (1995); Chaudhuri (2011)",
"note": "The decay of cooperation without punishment or communication is one of the "
"most robust regularities in experimental economics.",
},
notes="A population that holds contributions flat across rounds is missing the entire "
"dynamics of conditional cooperation.",
)
TRUST_SEND = P(
"trust_game_send",
"Trust game — amount sent",
"social_preferences",
"one-shot investment game, trustor role",
"Johnson & Mislin (2011) 'Trust games: a meta-analysis', Journal of Economic "
"Psychology 32:865-889",
NUM(0, 10, "dollars sent out of $10 (tripled before transfer)"),
[
{
"condition_id": "trustor",
"label": "trustor",
"prompt": (
"You are given $10 and paired with a stranger. You may send any amount from "
"$0 to $10. Any amount you send is tripled by the experimenter and given to "
"the stranger, who then decides how much, if anything, to send back to you. "
"How many dollars do you send? Answer with a single number."
),
}
],
{
"trustor": {
"mean": 5.00,
"sd": 2.70,
"confidence": "medium",
"note": "Meta-analytic mean send is ~50% of the endowment.",
}
},
notes="Sending is positive in nearly every subject pool, but far from the payoff-maximising "
"100%.",
)
TRUST_RETURN = P(
"trust_game_return",
"Trust game — amount returned",
"social_preferences",
"one-shot investment game, trustee role",
"Johnson & Mislin (2011)",
NUM(0, 18, "dollars returned out of $18 available"),
[
{
"condition_id": "trustee",
"label": "trustee",
"prompt": (
"A stranger was given $10 and sent you $6. The experimenter tripled it, so "
"you have $18. You may send back any amount from $0 to $18 to the stranger. "
"How many dollars do you send back? Answer with a single number."
),
}
],
{
"trustee": {
"mean": 6.50,
"sd": 4.00,
"confidence": "approximate",
"note": "Meta-analytic 'trustworthiness' is ~0.37 of the amount available; values "
"here are approximate and sensitive to the amount sent.",
}
},
notes="Reciprocity, not pure self-interest: trustees typically return enough to make "
"sending worthwhile.",
)
PRISONERS = P(
"prisoners_dilemma",
"Prisoner's dilemma — one shot",
"social_preferences",
"one-shot 2x2 symmetric game",
"Sally (1995) 'Conversation and cooperation in social dilemmas', Rationality and "
"Society 7:58-92",
BIN("defect", "cooperate"),
[
{
"condition_id": "oneshot",
"label": "one-shot, anonymous, no communication",
"prompt": (
"You and one other person each choose to cooperate or defect, simultaneously "
"and anonymously. You will never meet again. If both cooperate, each gets $6. "
"If both defect, each gets $2. If you cooperate and the other defects, you get "
"$0 and they get $9. If you defect and the other cooperates, you get $9 and "
"they get $0. Answer 1 to cooperate, 0 to defect."
),
}
],
{
"oneshot": {
"mean": 0.47,
"sd": None,
"confidence": "medium",
"note": "Meta-analytic cooperation in the one-shot prisoner's dilemma is ~45-50%; "
"it collapses toward 0 with experience and rises with communication.",
}
},
notes="Cooperation in the one-shot game is the benchmark case where a purely rational "
"population and a human population diverge most sharply.",
)
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# 9-14. Heuristics and biases
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
ASCH = P(
"asch_conformity",
"Asch line-judgement conformity",
"social_influence",
"unambiguous perceptual judgement under group pressure",
"Asch (1951, 1955); Bond & Smith (1996) 'Culture and conformity', Psychological "
"Bulletin 119:111-137",
BIN("give the correct answer", "conform to the group's wrong answer"),
[
{
"condition_id": "critical",
"label": "critical trial, unanimous wrong majority",
"prompt": (
"You are judging which of three comparison lines matches a standard line in "
"length. The correct match is obvious and you are confident about it. Six "
"other participants answer before you and all six give the same clearly "
"incorrect answer. It is now your turn, aloud. Answer 1 if you give the "
"group's incorrect answer, 0 if you give the obviously correct one."
),
}
],
{
"critical": {
"mean": 0.32,
"sd": None,
"confidence": "medium",
"note": "~32% of critical trials draw a conforming response in the classic "
"setting; roughly 75% of participants conform at least once and ~25% never do.",
}
},
notes="The cleanest available test of whether a simulated subject is willing to contradict "
"an unambiguous fact under social pressure.",
)
ANCHORING = P(
"anchoring",
"Anchoring — comparative anchor then estimate",
"heuristics_biases",
"anchoring-and-adjustment",
"Jacowitz & Kahneman (1995) 'Measures of anchoring in estimation tasks', Personality "
"and Social Psychology Bulletin 21:1161-1166; Tversky & Kahneman (1974)",
NUM(0, 100, "estimated percentage of African countries in the UN"),
[
{
"condition_id": "high",
"label": "high anchor (65%)",
"prompt": (
"Is the percentage of African countries in the United Nations more or less "
"than 65%? Now estimate, as accurately as you can, the actual percentage of "
"African countries in the United Nations. Answer with a single number "
"between 0 and 100."
),
},
{
"condition_id": "low",
"label": "low anchor (10%)",
"prompt": (
"Is the percentage of African countries in the United Nations more or less "
"than 10%? Now estimate, as accurately as you can, the actual percentage of "
"African countries in the United Nations. Answer with a single number "
"between 0 and 100."
),
},
],
{},
effect={
"a": "high",
"b": "low",
"mean_diff": 20.0,
"cohen_d": 0.90,
"confidence": "approximate",
"source": "Jacowitz & Kahneman (1995)",
"note": "Absolute estimates are item-specific, so only the contrast is anchored here; "
"the high-low gap is typically 15-25 percentage points.",
},
notes="Deliberately has no level anchor: the point of this protocol is the contrast, not "
"the absolute estimate. This is the pattern to use whenever only an effect size is "
"trustworthy.",
)
ASIAN_DISEASE = P(
"asian_disease",
"Asian disease problem — risky-choice framing",
"heuristics_biases",
"gain vs. loss frame, logically equivalent options",
"Tversky & Kahneman (1981) 'The framing of decisions and the psychology of choice', "
"Science 211:453-458",
BIN("choose the risky option", "choose the sure option"),
[
{
"condition_id": "gain",
"label": "gain frame (lives saved)",
"prompt": (
"Imagine the US is preparing for an unusual disease expected to kill 600 "
"people. Two programmes are proposed. If programme A is adopted, 200 people "
"will be saved. If programme B is adopted, there is a one-third probability "
"that 600 people will be saved and a two-thirds probability that no one will "
"be saved. Answer 1 for programme A (the sure option), 0 for programme B."
),
},
{
"condition_id": "loss",
"label": "loss frame (lives lost)",
"prompt": (
"Imagine the US is preparing for an unusual disease expected to kill 600 "
"people. Two programmes are proposed. If programme C is adopted, 400 people "
"will die. If programme D is adopted, there is a one-third probability that "
"nobody will die and a two-thirds probability that 600 people will die. "
"Answer 1 for programme C (the sure option), 0 for programme D."
),
},
],
{
"gain": {"mean": 0.72, "sd": None, "confidence": "high", "note": ""},
"loss": {"mean": 0.22, "sd": None, "confidence": "high", "note": ""},
},
effect={
"a": "gain",
"b": "loss",
"mean_diff": 0.50,
"cohen_d": 1.00,
"confidence": "high",
"source": "Tversky & Kahneman (1981)",
"note": "Options A/C and B/D are formally identical; only the description differs.",
},
notes="One of the most replicated effects in the literature. A population that is "
"frame-invariant here is not behaving like a human sample.",
)
ENDOWMENT = P(
"endowment_effect",
"Endowment effect — WTA vs. WTP",
"heuristics_biases",
"buyer vs. seller valuation of the same object",
"Kahneman, Knetsch & Thaler (1990) 'Experimental tests of the endowment effect and "
"the Coase theorem', Journal of Political Economy 98:1325-1348",
NUM(0, 10, "dollars"),
[
{
"condition_id": "wtp",
"label": "buyer — maximum willingness to pay",
"prompt": (
"A coffee mug is for sale in the experiment. You do not own one. What is the "
"largest amount, from $0 to $10, that you would be willing to pay to buy this "
"mug? Answer with a single number."
),
},
{
"condition_id": "wta",
"label": "seller — minimum willingness to accept",
"prompt": (
"You have just been given a coffee mug and now own it. What is the smallest "
"amount, from $0 to $10, that you would be willing to accept to sell this "
"mug? Answer with a single number."
),
},
],
{
"wtp": {"mean": 3.00, "sd": 1.50, "confidence": "approximate", "note": ""},
"wta": {"mean": 6.50, "sd": 2.00, "confidence": "approximate", "note": ""},
},
effect={
"a": "wta",
"b": "wtp",
"mean_diff": 3.50,
"cohen_d": 0.80,
"confidence": "approximate",
"source": "Kahneman, Knetsch & Thaler (1990); Horowitz & McConnell (2002) meta-analysis",
"note": "The WTA/WTP ratio is typically 2-3; absolute dollar values depend on the "
"object and the subject pool.",
},
notes="Ownership alone shifts valuation. A population that quotes the same number in both "
"roles is treating this as a pure valuation problem.",
)
CRT = P(
"crt_batball",
"Cognitive reflection — bat and ball",
"heuristics_biases",
"intuitive-but-wrong vs. reflective answer",
"Frederick (2005) 'Cognitive reflection and decision making', Journal of Economic "
"Perspectives 19:25-42",
BIN("intuitive wrong answer (10 cents)", "reflective correct answer (5 cents)"),
[
{
"condition_id": "batball",
"label": "bat and ball",
"prompt": (
"A bat and a ball cost $1.10 in total. The bat costs $1.00 more than the "
"ball. How much does the ball cost? Answer 1 if your answer is 5 cents "
"(correct), 0 if your answer is 10 cents."
),
}
],
{
"batball": {
"mean": 0.40,
"sd": None,
"confidence": "approximate",
"note": "Correct rates on the bat-and-ball item run roughly 30-50% in student "
"samples and lower in general-population samples.",
}
},
notes="Scored as a binary here so that no free-text grading is needed. If you want the "
"full 3-item CRT, run it as three binary protocols.",
)
CONJUNCTION = P(
"conjunction_fallacy",
"Conjunction fallacy — Linda problem",
"heuristics_biases",
"representativeness vs. the conjunction rule",
"Tversky & Kahneman (1983) 'Extensional versus intuitive reasoning', Psychological "
"Review 90:293-315",
BIN("choose the single (logically correct) option", "choose the conjunction"),
[
{
"condition_id": "between",
"label": "between-subjects, ranking removed",
"prompt": (
"Linda is 31 years old, single, outspoken and very bright. She majored in "
"philosophy. As a student she was deeply concerned with issues of "
"discrimination and social justice, and she participated in anti-nuclear "
"demonstrations. Which is more probable? Option 1: Linda is a bank teller. "
"Option 2: Linda is a bank teller and is active in the feminist movement. "
"Answer 1 if you choose option 2 (the conjunction), 0 if you choose option 1."
),
}
],
{
"between": {
"mean": 0.80,
"sd": None,
"confidence": "medium",
"note": "Roughly 80-90% choose the conjunction in the standard version; rates fall "
"with transparent wording or within-subjects designs.",
}
},
notes="Choosing the conjunction violates the conjunction rule. This is the classic case "
"where a well-aligned model looks *worse* than a human sample.",
)
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# 15. Reasoning
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
WASON = P(
"wason_selection",
"Wason selection task — abstract vs. deontic",
"reasoning",
"conditional-reasoning / cheater-detection",
"Wason (1968); Cosmides & Tooby (1992) 'Cognitive adaptations for social exchange', "
"Cognition 31:187-276",
BIN("any other selection", "exactly the two cards that can falsify the rule"),
[
{
"condition_id": "abstract",
"label": "abstract rule (D / K / 3 / 7)",
"prompt": (
"Four cards are on a table, showing D, K, 3 and 7. Every card has a letter on "
"one side and a number on the other. The rule is: if a card has a D on one "
"side, then it has a 3 on the other side. You may turn over only the cards "
"needed to test whether the rule is false. The correct answer is the D card "
"and the 7 card. Answer 1 if you would turn over exactly those two cards, "
"0 otherwise."
),
},
{
"condition_id": "deontic",
"label": "social-contract rule (under-age drinking)",
"prompt": (
"You are checking whether people are violating the rule 'if a person is "
"drinking beer, then they must be over 21'. Four people are in front of you: "
"one drinking beer, one drinking coke, one aged 25, one aged 16. You may check "
"only the ones needed to find a violation. The correct answer is the beer "
"drinker and the 16-year-old. Answer 1 if you would check exactly those two "
"people, 0 otherwise."
),
},
],
{
"abstract": {"mean": 0.15, "sd": None, "confidence": "medium-high", "note": ""},
"deontic": {"mean": 0.70, "sd": None, "confidence": "medium", "note": ""},
},
effect={
"a": "deontic",
"b": "abstract",
"mean_diff": 0.55,
"cohen_d": 1.20,
"confidence": "medium-high",
"source": "Cosmides & Tooby (1992); Wason (1968)",
"note": "The content effect is large: the same logical form is easy when framed as "
"cheater detection and hard when framed abstractly.",
},
notes="The correct answers are stated in the prompts, so this measures whether the "
"population's *selection* matches human selection, not whether it can solve the logic.",
)
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# 16-17. Prosocial behaviour and moral judgement
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
BYSTANDER = P(
"bystander_effect",
"Bystander effect — alone vs. in a group",
"social_influence",
"diffusion of responsibility",
"Darley & Latané (1968) 'Bystander intervention in emergencies', Journal of Personality "
"and Social Psychology 8:377-383; Latané & Nida (1981)",
BIN("do not help", "help"),
[
{
"condition_id": "alone",
"label": "participant alone",
"prompt": (
"You are alone in a room filling out a questionnaire. You hear someone in the "
"next room fall, cry out in pain and groan. No one else is present. Answer 1 "
"if you would go to help, 0 if you would not."
),
},
{
"condition_id": "group",
"label": "two passive others present",
"prompt": (
"You are in a room with two other people, filling out a questionnaire. You "
"hear someone in the next room fall, cry out in pain and groan. The other two "
"people look up, then go back to their questionnaires without reacting. Answer "
"1 if you would go to help, 0 if you would not."
),
},
],
{
"alone": {"mean": 0.75, "sd": None, "confidence": "medium", "note": ""},
"group": {"mean": 0.35, "sd": None, "confidence": "medium", "note": ""},
},
effect={
"a": "alone",
"b": "group",
"mean_diff": 0.40,
"cohen_d": 0.85,
"confidence": "medium",
"source": "Darley & Latané (1968); Latané & Nida (1981)",
"note": "Meta-analytic effect is moderate and smaller than textbook accounts suggest, "
"but consistently present.",
},
notes="A simulated population that helps at the same rate in both conditions shows no "
"diffusion of responsibility at all.",
)
TROLLEY = P(
"trolley_dilemma",
"Trolley problem — switch vs. footbridge",
"moral_judgment",
"sacrificial moral dilemmas, means vs. side-effect",
"Foot (1967); Thomson (1985) 'The trolley problem', Yale Law Journal 94:1395-1415; "
"large-N replications (e.g. Hauser et al. 2007)",
BIN("do nothing", "act to save the five"),
[
{
"condition_id": "switch",
"label": "switch (impersonal)",
"prompt": (
"A runaway trolley is heading for five people who will be killed if it "
"continues. You are standing next to a switch. If you pull it, the trolley "
"diverts to a side track where it will kill one person instead. Answer 1 if "
"you pull the switch, 0 if you do not."
),
},
{
"condition_id": "footbridge",
"label": "footbridge (personal)",
"prompt": (
"A runaway trolley is heading for five people who will be killed if it "
"continues. You are on a footbridge above the track next to a large stranger. "
"The only way to stop the trolley is to push the stranger off the bridge onto "
"the track; his body will stop the trolley, killing him but saving the five. "
"Answer 1 if you push the stranger, 0 if you do not."
),
},
],
{
"switch": {"mean": 0.85, "sd": None, "confidence": "medium-high", "note": ""},
"footbridge": {"mean": 0.25, "sd": None, "confidence": "medium-high", "note": ""},
},
effect={
"a": "switch",
"b": "footbridge",
"mean_diff": 0.60,
"cohen_d": 1.30,
"confidence": "medium-high",
"source": "Thomson (1985); Hauser et al. (2007)",
"note": "Both dilemmas sacrifice one to save five; the personal/impersonal contrast "
"drives a very large difference in responding.",
},
notes="The two dilemmas are consequentially identical. A population that gives the same "
"answer to both is doing utilitarian arithmetic, not reproducing human moral judgement.",
)
PROTOCOLS: List[Dict[str, Any]] = [
DICTATOR,
ULTIMATUM_OFFER,
ULTIMATUM_REJECT,
PUBLIC_GOODS,
PUBLIC_GOODS_DECAY,
TRUST_SEND,
TRUST_RETURN,
PRISONERS,
ASCH,
ANCHORING,
ASIAN_DISEASE,
ENDOWMENT,
CRT,
CONJUNCTION,
WASON,
BYSTANDER,
TROLLEY,
]
def _validate(p: Dict[str, Any]) -> None:
ids = {c["condition_id"] for c in p["conditions"]}
for cid in p["anchors"]:
assert cid in ids, f"{p['protocol_id']}: anchor for unknown condition {cid}"
e = p.get("effect")
if e:
assert e["a"] in ids and e["b"] in ids, f"{p['protocol_id']}: bad effect condition"
assert e["mean_diff"] != 0, f"{p['protocol_id']}: zero effect anchor"
assert p["response"]["min"] < p["response"]["max"]
def main() -> None:
ap = argparse.ArgumentParser()
ap.add_argument(
"--out-dir", default=str(Path(__file__).resolve().parents[1] / "data")
)
args = ap.parse_args()
for p in PROTOCOLS:
_validate(p)
out = Path(args.out_dir)
out.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
with (out / "protocols.jsonl").open("w", encoding="utf-8", newline="\n") as f:
for p in PROTOCOLS:
f.write(json.dumps(p, ensure_ascii=False) + "\n")
n_eff = sum(1 for p in PROTOCOLS if p["effect"])
n_loc = sum(1 for p in PROTOCOLS if p["anchors"])
print(f"wrote {len(PROTOCOLS)} protocols -> {out / 'protocols.jsonl'}")
print(f" with location/dispersion anchors: {n_loc}")
print(f" with a treatment-effect anchor: {n_eff}")
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()
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