# Study 000E Audit

## Structural Audit

This package is structurally sound.

It includes:

- manuscript
- abstract
- methods
- results
- discussion
- limitations
- plain-language summary
- copied source tables
- generated outputs
- generated figures
- build script
- manifest

## Scientific Audit

### Question

Does session-level burden rise when the system is pushed outside its narrowed successful running context?

### Was the question answered?

Yes.

The strongest supported answer is:

`Yes, session-level burden rises outside the narrowed successful context.`

### Is the answer stronger than the data allows?

No.

The package stays at the session-burden level, which is where the evidence is strongest.
It does not overclaim a proven next-day collapse or exact mechanism.

### Does the framing undersell or misframe the study?

No.

The package now keeps treadmill and outdoor in the methods layer and frames the main result at the stronger, broader level:

- narrowed successful context
- outside successful context
- burden protection inside the narrowed context
- burden increase outside it

### Does the package use the right comparison base?

Yes.

It does not rely on one comparison only.
It uses:

- early and late window means from `000B`
- matched treadmill expectation from `Microstudy B`
- local speed-band treadmill comparison from the run-level source table
- hybrid-confound separation from `000C`

The main nuance is that the local matched-treadmill comparison is directionally supportive on average, but not as uniform as the model-based residual result. The package states that explicitly and places the strongest weight on the residual-burden ladder.

## Audit Verdict

`Study 000E` is structurally sound and scientifically coherent.

It should be treated as a flagship follow-on study because it answers one of the most important open child questions created by `000D`.