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Refused tasks are not scored: rank on the tasks every model answered - #59

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A refusal is the provider's safety policy, not a protocol, so it can't count as a 0.

New scoring everywhere (leaderboard, REPORT.md, Figure 7, README, paper):

  • Headline: mean over the tasks every model answered (8 tasks now)
  • Beside it: each model's mean over all the tasks it answered (with n)
  • Refusals: own column, "refused, not scored"
Sonnet 5.5 Opus 5.5 Fable 5.1 GPT-6.1 Sol
Mean over the 8 tasks all answered 0.842 1.000 0.969 0.898
Mean over all tasks answered 0.863 (11) 0.972 (9) 0.969 (8) 0.881 (11)
Refused, not scored 0 2 3 0

The "refusals count as 0" mean is gone from every surface. The README notes that each new model can only shrink the common set, which is why the all-answered mean is shown too.

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A refusal is the provider's safety policy, not a protocol, so it says nothing about a model's ability to write one;
counting it as 0 ranked models by their filters. Everywhere a score is shown:
- headline: mean over the tasks every model answered (8 now): Opus 1.000, Fable 0.969, GPT-6.1 Sol 0.898, Sonnet 0.842
- beside it: each model's mean over all the tasks it answered, with n
- refusals: their own column, "refused, not scored"
The "refusals count as 0" mean is removed from the leaderboard (now ranks on the common tasks; second view: all tasks
answered), the report generator and REPORT.md, Figure 7 (bars: common, all answered, easy, paper-only; cost against
the headline), the README and the paper.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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