structured — ask for JSON, lose the mustard

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The One-Word Census asked models questions with a hundred right answers. This study asks the same questions with one change: Reply with JSON only, in the form {"word": "<your answer>"}. No schema enforcement, no constrained decoding — just the request. The field converges harder, and the distinctive models lose the most. Controls (full battery each): XML compresses like JSON; YAML and CSV show no reliable net effect; bare square brackets significantly loosens the field — the collapse is specific to the formats models are trained to answer in.