| # LLM agents in public-good and common-pool-resource experiments |
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| This folder is an export of the experimental data used in the accompanying paper. It is designed to be copied to a Hugging Face dataset repository. |
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| ## Contents |
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| | File | Description | |
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| | `data/ors_2022_main_decisions.csv.gz` | Sanitized decision-level records from the corrected Oechssler--Reischmann--Sofianos (ORS 2022) VCM, SCCM, and CCM sweep, including baseline and fixed-player conditions. | |
| | `data/ors_2022_main_group_periods.csv.gz` | One row per group and period for the same sweep; recommended for most analyses. | |
| | `data/ors_2022_main_manifest.csv` | Anonymized condition/run manifest and row counts. | |
| | `data/ors_2022_model_metadata.csv` | Model metadata used to describe the tested panel. | |
| | `data/prompt_ablation_decisions.csv.gz` | Decision-level records for the worked-example and coalition prompt ablations. | |
| | `data/prompt_ablation_manifest.csv` | Anonymized manifest for the prompt-ablation records. | |
| | `data/fischer_2004_exploratory_decisions.csv.gz` | Sanitized decision-level records for the exploratory Fischer (2004) CPR runs. These are single-seed exploratory data, not the queued confirmatory sweep. | |
| | `data/fischer_2004_manifest.csv` | Anonymized Fischer condition manifest. | |
| | `data/analysis_tables/` | Small, publication-facing summary tables (CSV/JSON) copied from verified analyses. | |
| | `metadata.json` | Dataset scope, design, and disclosure notes. | |
| | `DATA_DICTIONARY.md` | Column definitions and coding conventions. | |
| | `checksums.sha256` | SHA-256 checksums for every exported file. | |
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| The release contains 2,469,600 ORS decision rows, 493,920 ORS group-period |
| rows, 322,200 prompt-ablation decision rows, and 864 Fischer decision rows. |
| The main ORS manifest has 486 selected result files; some files are partial |
| diagnostic conditions and should be filtered using `status`, `actual_rows`, and |
| `expected_rows` when reconstructing a particular analysis sample. |
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| ## Important disclosure boundary |
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| The export intentionally excludes chain-of-thought/reasoning text, raw model |
| responses, prompts, API response identifiers, billing and reservation fields, |
| machine fingerprints, timestamps, run-directory names, and all local or remote |
| filesystem paths. The model outputs are represented by the parsed experimental |
| choices and derived game outcomes. This avoids publishing private reasoning or |
| infrastructure metadata while retaining the information needed to reproduce the |
| paper's analyses. |
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| Player IDs are experimental positions, not human identities. Fixed-player |
| placement is retained because it is part of the treatment definition; no human |
| participant data are included in this export. |
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| ## Loading |
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| ```python |
| import pandas as pd |
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| decisions = pd.read_csv("data/ors_2022_main_decisions.csv.gz") |
| groups = pd.read_csv("data/ors_2022_main_group_periods.csv.gz") |
| ``` |
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| The CSV files use UTF-8, comma separators, and explicit missing values as empty |
| fields. IDs are stable within this release but are synthetic and carry no source |
| path information. All percentages are stored as proportions in `[0, 1]` unless |
| the column name ends in `_pct`, in which case they are percentage points in |
| `[0, 100]`. |
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| The two experiment-level exports use gzip-compressed CSV with a header row. |
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| ## Scientific-use notes |
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| The ORS main panel is a purposive panel of model variants, not a probability |
| sample. Human reference summaries in the paper are derived from the cited human |
| datasets and are not reproduced here. The Fischer archive data have one inference |
| seed and four chains per condition and should be labelled exploratory. The |
| analysis tables are convenience products; the decision and group-period files |
| are the authoritative exported observations. |
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| Release date: 2026-08-28. |
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