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Overall essay quality was higher with the scaffold (mixed-model b = 0.089, p = .008) and stayed higher in Task 2 when neither group had it (b = 0.070, p = .037).
64.6% vs 45.6%correct topic recall about three days later, scaffolded vs control (Task 1, complete cases)
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24 frequent LLM users (12 female, 12 male, mean age 25.75) produced 992 retrospective annotations of reasoning steps and tool actions.
48.6%share of LLM reasoning steps users judged as AI-initiated, work they had not asked for
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Computer's cumulative queries reached 84 times the first-week total within three months.
26 minutes vs 33 secondsautonomous machine work per session on Computer versus Search for near-identical first queries