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Yield decomposition of existing data

Part of Inverse Innovation with the Encyclopedia of Abstractions · Yield decomposition of existing data · Last revised August 2026

Status: complete, explicitly post hoc
Unit of inference: only the tested protocol strata; not the Encyclopedia's full archetype × domain universe

Result

Observed yield was neither confined to one archetype nor uniformly broad. The strongest defensible reading is mixed, protocol-dependent breadth. Strict outcomes appeared under multiple archetypes in both portfolio experiments, while the empirical-partner lane in Experiment 6 was broader still. Sparse event counts make rank ordering unstable.

Stratum Level Outcome Events / denominator Archetypes with ≥1 Top-two share HHI Frozen diagnostic
EXP03_CLOSED_BOOK_320 cell STAGE1_SUCCESS 297/320 5/5 42.4% 0.201 BROAD_ACROSS_TESTED_ARCHETYPES
EXP03_CLOSED_BOOK_320 cell CLOSED_BOOK_ADOPTER_PIPELINE 33/320 5/5 57.6% 0.2305 BROAD_ACROSS_TESTED_ARCHETYPES
EXP03_EXTERNALLY_ASSESSED_SELECTED_47 proposal EXTERNALLY_VERIFIED_PIPELINE 21/47 5/5 66.7% 0.2834 CONCENTRATED_IN_TESTED_ARCHETYPES
EXP03_EXTERNALLY_ASSESSED_SELECTED_47 proposal ADJACENT_OR_NO_CLOSE 6/47 83.3% 0.3889 CONCENTRATED_IN_TESTED_ARCHETYPES
EXP03_EXTERNALLY_ASSESSED_SELECTED_47 proposal ESTABLISHED_OR_SUBSTANTIAL_COLLISION 40/47 5/5 57.5% 0.24 BROAD_ACROSS_TESTED_ARCHETYPES
EXP04_PROPOSAL_FIRST_20 cell STRICT_SUCCESS 5/20 60.0% 0.28 BROAD_ACROSS_TESTED_ARCHETYPES
EXP04_RETRIEVAL_FIRST_20 cell STRICT_SUCCESS 1/20 100.0% 1.0 CONCENTRATED_IN_TESTED_ARCHETYPES
EXP05_FIVE_PROPOSAL_20 proposal STRICT_SUCCESS 4/100 100.0% 0.625 CONCENTRATED_IN_TESTED_ARCHETYPES
EXP05_FIVE_PROPOSAL_20 cell AT_LEAST_ONE_STRICT 4/20 100.0% 0.625 CONCENTRATED_IN_TESTED_ARCHETYPES
EXP06_FOUR_PROPOSAL_60 proposal STRICT_SUCCESS 15/240 60.0% 0.2622 BROAD_ACROSS_TESTED_ARCHETYPES
EXP06_FOUR_PROPOSAL_60 cell AT_LEAST_ONE_STRICT_SUCCESS 11/60 63.6% 0.2727 CONCENTRATED_IN_TESTED_ARCHETYPES
EXP06_FOUR_PROPOSAL_60 proposal EMPIRICAL_PARTNER_CANDIDATE 32/240 5/5 53.1% 0.2383 BROAD_ACROSS_TESTED_ARCHETYPES
EXP06_FOUR_PROPOSAL_60 cell AT_LEAST_ONE_EMPIRICAL_PARTNER_CANDIDATE 24/60 5/5 54.2% 0.2361 BROAD_ACROSS_TESTED_ARCHETYPES

Interpretation

The full closed-book Experiment 3 matrix unsurprisingly shows broad Stage-1 and adopter-pipeline coverage because every archetype was crossed with all 64 domains. The selected external subset is not a comparable denominator. In Experiments 5 and 6, strict survivors were distributed across several archetypes rather than produced by a single universal winner. Experiment 6's partner candidates reached all five tested archetypes, indicating that the pipeline's unresolved-real-world-evidence lane is not an isolated archetype effect.

The frozen breadth labels are diagnostics for designing a future random breadth probe. They are not tests of whether one archetype is intrinsically more innovative, and domain rows must not be read as domain effects.

Reproducibility