Iteration 77 — H-049 CRQA EXCLUDED KILL #20 · SURROGATE CONTROL UNMASKED IT · EXAM KILL

In plain words: this candidate promised to read something none of the certified meters do — not what VALUES two series take, but whether their DYNAMICS move in aligned patterns. The exam's teeth were built for exactly that claim: alongside the real data, it was fed versions where one series was rotated in time — same values, same internal rhythms, all alignment destroyed. If the instrument truly reads alignment, the rotated data must score much lower. It did not: in all three market regimes the de-aligned score came within a thousandth of the real one. The "coupling" reading is almost entirely a reflection of each series' own internal rhythm — which is marginal structure the certified distribution meters already capture. Its regime-to-regime differences (which looked statistically solid on their own) are thereby exposed as repackaged information, not new signal. The kill mechanism echoes the gambler's: an instrument must prove its reading depends on the relationship it claims to measure, and the surrogate leg is where pretenders die. Six candidates into the batch: two certificates, five kills — every kill by a different, named mechanism.