{"schema_version":1,"experiment_id":"eoa_inverse_innovation_exp11_mechanism_context_external20_20260804","cell_id":"invariant_mode_decomposition_design__organizational_management","judge_id":"J2","item_assessments":[{"opaque_id":"invariant_mode_decomposition_design__organizational_management__B","supported_problem":4,"external_distinctiveness":4,"testability":4,"researchability":4,"evidence_quality":4,"fatal_issue":null},{"opaque_id":"invariant_mode_decomposition_design__organizational_management__C","supported_problem":3,"external_distinctiveness":3,"testability":3,"researchability":4,"evidence_quality":3,"fatal_issue":null},{"opaque_id":"invariant_mode_decomposition_design__organizational_management__A","supported_problem":4,"external_distinctiveness":3,"testability":4,"researchability":3,"evidence_quality":4,"fatal_issue":null}],"pairwise_comparisons":[{"pair_id":"B_vs_C","left_id":"invariant_mode_decomposition_design__organizational_management__B","right_id":"invariant_mode_decomposition_design__organizational_management__C","preference":"LEFT","confidence":"HIGH","rationale":"B has the stronger externally grounded problem, a sharper incremental claim against individual-metric and bottleneck rivals, randomized identification of control effects, explicit predictive and intervention falsifiers, and a credible staged authority path. C is researchable, but its exact precursor lacks direct evidence, its initial eight-week design requires substantial historical-data qualification, and its later intervention claim remains vulnerable to confounding."},{"pair_id":"B_vs_A","left_id":"invariant_mode_decomposition_design__organizational_management__B","right_id":"invariant_mode_decomposition_design__organizational_management__A","preference":"LEFT","confidence":"HIGH","rationale":"Both offer meaningful problems and rigorous falsification, but B preserves more distinctive value relative to the closest prior art by separating randomized control effects from descriptive endogenous dynamics and by requiring a separately powered locked-policy test. A faces especially close same-problem, same-lever system-dynamics prior art, unvalidated numerical thresholds, fragile single-unit time-series estimation, and an indeterminate concrete authorizer path."},{"pair_id":"C_vs_A","left_id":"invariant_mode_decomposition_design__organizational_management__C","right_id":"invariant_mode_decomposition_design__organizational_management__A","preference":"RIGHT","confidence":"MODERATE","rationale":"A is the more worthwhile candidate despite closer mechanism-level prior art because its service and workforce problem has stronger matched evidence, its contrast includes randomized signed transition-dynamics change rather than only shadow-alert performance, and its falsifiers cover simpler drivers, forecasting rivals, intercept-only effects, carryover, and exported harm. C has a safer and easier shadow step, but weaker evidence for the exact hidden precursor and a less identified path from alerts to causal intervention."}],"overall_top_choice":"invariant_mode_decomposition_design__organizational_management__B","overall_rationale":"B best combines external distinctiveness with research value. Public evidence supports the coupled delivery and worker-strain problem, while the remaining claim is explicitly contrastive against individual metrics, shocks, bottlenecks, and established WIP practice. Its phased design separates descriptive mode estimation, randomized control identification, and later policy evaluation; supplies decisive rejection gates and subgroup safeguards; and identifies a credible sponsor, governance, worker-consultation, and safety-review pathway. Adjacent project-control and modal-analysis prior art narrows the claim but does not eliminate this empirical composition.","blinding_limitations":"Assessment used only the supplied preserved records and external-evaluation summaries. The underlying sources and datasets were not independently re-opened, and the bounded searches cannot exclude proprietary, paywalled, patent, or additional non-English prior art. Opaque identifiers were treated solely as record labels; no treatment identity was inferred."}