{"schema_version":1,"experiment_id":"eoa_inverse_innovation_exp07_retrospective_selector60_20260803","cell_code":"E7C049","selector_replication":1,"assessments":[{"blind_id":"CANDIDATE_A","problem_reality_importance":91,"causal_archetype_fit":74,"distinctiveness_prior_art_resilience":61,"operational_specificity":93,"falsifiability_test_quality":90,"adopter_partner_path":70,"deployability_complexity":64,"authority_safety_reversibility":95,"strict_potential":72,"empirical_partner_potential":83,"scrutiny_priority":81,"biggest_visible_risk":"The collective ceremony could create false assurance or make confidential independence concerns harder to disclose safely.","rationale":"The problem is consequential, the absent-user frame gives the ritual a credible causal role, and the synthetic between-group test has decision-changing measures and clear rejection criteria. Authority boundaries and rollback are unusually strong. Scrutiny should focus on whether the symbolic cycle adds recognition and routing value beyond improved confirmations, confidential consultation, and ordinary acceptance governance, especially given partner sensitivity, duplication, and disclosure risk."},{"blind_id":"CANDIDATE_B","problem_reality_importance":88,"causal_archetype_fit":70,"distinctiveness_prior_art_resilience":52,"operational_specificity":91,"falsifiability_test_quality":82,"adopter_partner_path":79,"deployability_complexity":76,"authority_safety_reversibility":91,"strict_potential":65,"empirical_partner_potential":82,"scrutiny_priority":76,"biggest_visible_risk":"The observance could become a recurring symbolic apology that legitimizes overwork while pay, staffing, and recovery remain unchanged.","rationale":"Ambiguous post-close obligations and unrepaired fatigue are credible and important, and the proposal specifies safe status separation, residual-task routing, and bounded testing. A finance and workforce partner could readily test comprehension and pressure. Its contrastive claim is vulnerable because enforceable recovery policies, workload controls, trackers, and ordinary retrospectives may deliver the material objective directly; a synthetic dry run also cannot establish that leaders will honor recovery commitments under live deadline pressure."},{"blind_id":"CANDIDATE_C","problem_reality_importance":93,"causal_archetype_fit":78,"distinctiveness_prior_art_resilience":58,"operational_specificity":94,"falsifiability_test_quality":95,"adopter_partner_path":87,"deployability_complexity":83,"authority_safety_reversibility":96,"strict_potential":78,"empirical_partner_potential":94,"scrutiny_priority":91,"biggest_visible_risk":"A simpler rank-aware issue review with anonymous submission and rigorous tracking may produce the same results without symbolic ceremony.","rationale":"This proposal connects a highly consequential audit problem to a precise rank-crossing mechanism and then transfers every surfaced contradiction into authoritative workflow. The counterbalanced synthetic comparison holds facts, time, and tracking fields constant, measures both issue detection and safety, and can clearly stop the intervention. The token itself may be dispensable, but the partner-resolvable uncertainty and exceptionally bounded first step make this the strongest scrutiny candidate."},{"blind_id":"CANDIDATE_D","problem_reality_importance":86,"causal_archetype_fit":84,"distinctiveness_prior_art_resilience":69,"operational_specificity":92,"falsifiability_test_quality":76,"adopter_partner_path":81,"deployability_complexity":72,"authority_safety_reversibility":94,"strict_potential":82,"empirical_partner_potential":85,"scrutiny_priority":87,"biggest_visible_risk":"A vivid reenactment may freeze a selective or contested origin story and sanctify an obsolete control.","rationale":"Reenactment, circulating transaction paths, and reciprocal dependency exchange are causally integral rather than merely decorative, giving this proposal the strongest strict-lane potential and a meaningful contrast with procedural training. It is specific, reversible, and compatible with a willing control-function partner. The proposed evidence step is weaker than its own strongest counterfactual because it compares pre-cycle documentation with post-cycle performance rather than directly randomizing against a content-equivalent written case; scrutiny should test both narrative distortion and incremental retention."}],"rank_order":["CANDIDATE_C","CANDIDATE_D","CANDIDATE_A","CANDIDATE_B"],"top_choice":"CANDIDATE_C","portfolio_observation":"All four proposals identify credible problems and provide unusually careful authority boundaries, but each remains vulnerable to a simpler nonritual rival. C offers the cleanest decisive partner study; D makes the archetype most causally indispensable; A has strong measurement but greater confidentiality and adoption friction; B has an accessible partner path but the highest risk that ceremony substitutes for material employment reform.","confidence":"MODERATE"}