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The intervention also fails if calibration creates quota behavior, delays emergency action, or merely shifts discretion into undocumented categories.","contrastive_claim_remaining":"An accurately measured, stable citywide enforcement-response mix does not by itself establish comparable exercise of bounded discretion. A still-testable increment is whether persistent within-category divergence also appears when inspectors independently classify identical stated facts and, if so, whether nonbinding guidance or supervisory calibration improves interpretability without prescribing live outcomes.","experiment_id":"eoa_inverse_innovation_exp13_second_slot_policy60_20260806","gates":{"adequate_source_search":{"rationale":"Four public-web lanes covered the proposal directly, historical street-level-enforcement terminology, municipal audits and practices, and combinations involving inspector reliability, monitoring, and standardized comparison. 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It cannot establish world novelty, patentability, market size, expert acceptance, implementation value, or absence of closer prior art in unsearched municipal records, paywalled literature, patents, procurement materials, or other jurisdictions."}