DOCA.3:5.3 - A research problem remains a hypothesis

A research group suspects that an evaluation loses important failure cases when several task types are pooled. The proposed contribution is a reproducible comparison between the pooled and separated analyses, with explicit limits on what any difference would establish.

The problem is provisional: no result yet shows that the suspected loss changes the relevant scientific conclusion. The next question is whether the comparison exposes a conclusion-changing discrepancy on an admissible dataset. A negative answer closes or narrows the hypothesis; a positive answer motivates further research. Publication, funding, and improved model performance are not part of the proposed epistemic result.