strategyqa-binary-popqa-open-ended

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The STRATEGYQA prompt requires a binary True/False answer while the POPQA prompt requires an open-ended free-form answer.

Summary

The two tasks demand fundamentally different kinds of responses: one forces a simple yes-or-no decision, while the other requires generating a complete answer from scratch. This matters because a system serving both tasks needs to switch between a narrow classification mode and a broader generation mode, and errors in each will look and feel very different.