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GREAT EXPERIMENT 001 · PILOT 2 · COUNTERFACTUAL CONTROL

Do the “right” names fit their lives better than shuffled names?

RESULT · NOT SUPPORTED

We froze the existing A–Z designed concept dictionary, converted each name into its concept vocabulary, and compared exact shared concept words with the citizen's existing Purpose + Great Question + Capability labels. Then names were randomly reassigned 10,000 times.

0.0736true-name mean affinity
0.0881shuffled-name mean
0.0665–0.110695% shuffled interval
p = 0.905one-sided permutation

Reality returned something stronger than “no effect”

The true names did not outperform shuffled names under this fixed designed-letter dictionary. Their mean lexical affinity (0.0736) was actually below the average shuffled assignment (0.0881).

This is evidence against treating the current A=Attention / N=Network / T=Test style dictionary as a predictive decoder of these 100 lives.

Why this matters

Post-hoc risk

A flexible interpreter can select whichever concept from each letter feels appropriate after learning the biography.

Swap test

If random names fit as well or better, the feeling of “uncanny fit” is not sufficient evidence.

Designed ≠ historical

The letter dictionary remains useful as a creativity/learning device, but Pilot 2 gives no basis for calling it a life code.

Boundary

This does not test documented etymology, parental naming intention, social effects of names, phonetics, or Chinese character meanings. It specifically tests the Museum's current designed English letter-concept dictionary as a decoder against the current prototype Life Space.

Combined evidence so far

Pilot 1: objective Roman-letter structural similarity did not track Life-Space similarity (r ≈ −0.047; permutation p ≈ 0.211).

Pilot 2: fixed designed letter-concept readings did not make true names fit their Life labels better than shuffled names (p ≈ 0.905).

Therefore two different tests currently point in the same direction: the simple “name as compressed life code” formulations tested here are not supported.