Rhythm or programme
Default-preserving meta-choice
A process in which inheriting a default changes the probability of reinstalling it for another person
Hypotheses on this target 1
Inhibition
Activation
Function preservation
Feedback restoration
Rhythm restoration
Direct measurement1
Direct measurement1
Inherited defaults may sustain traditions when people reinstall them for successors
Where this hypothesis actsFresh participants in a shared naming or document-making task after relay and recommender memory interruption
What is proposedMeasure whether inherited defaults causally increase their reinstallation for successors
With whatChange of environment or regimen
HowRandomize inherited, erased or independently assigned defaults and separately assign current output; match alternatives, confirmation costs and authority cues
Possible resultPossible excess of actively authored focal descendants sustained by inherited defaults through fresh cohorts
2026-10-05