Premature Evaluation and False Stabilization: A Minimal Synthetic Stress Test Under Distributed Evidence

This technical note presents a minimal synthetic stress test examining whether premature evaluation can produce locally readable outputs while reducing fidelity to the full evidential structure of a process. The setup compares four evaluative interfaces — EARLY, MID, FULL, and Forced Early Collapse (FEC) — across three evidence families: easy-local, distributed-integration, and reversal-conflict. The results show a structural asymmetry: early readability can remain legitimate in easy-local cases, becomes only partial under distributed integration, and can become strongly misleading in reversal-conflict regimes. The contribution is intentionally local and methodological. It does not propose a general cognitive theory, a psychological typology, or a universal account of premature judgment. Included in this record are the technical note, the recovered notebook used for the final synthetic stress test, and an archive of the generated outputs.