A Rendered Passage Is Not a Picture: Four Things Called Modality Preference in Multimodal Knowledge Conflict, Why the Reported Reversal of Text Dominance Changes the Channel but Not the Content, and the Reliability-Matched Test That Would Settle It

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Mahendrakar, P. (2026). A Rendered Passage Is Not a Picture: Four Things Called Modality Preference in Multimodal Knowledge Conflict, Why the Reported Reversal of Text Dominance Changes the Channel but Not the Content, and the Reliability-Matched Test That Would Settle It [Preprint]. Life of Research. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23919442

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@misc{lor1852026,
  title        = {A Rendered Passage Is Not a Picture: Four Things Called Modality Preference in Multimodal Knowledge Conflict, Why the Reported Reversal of Text Dominance Changes the Channel but Not the Content, and the Reliability-Matched Test That Would Settle It},
  author       = {Pranay Mahendrakar},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Life of Research},
  doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.23919442},
  url          = {https://lifeofresearch.com/preprints/185},
  keywords     = {multimodal large language models, knowledge conflict, modality preference, text dominance, text-as-image, cue combination, position bias, evaluation methodology},
  note         = {LOR-00185}
}

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