Worked example · 01
Lower-valued work can still teach
Can modest economic value accompany meaningful human movement?
Midday · first successful use
A lower-valued learning activity includes the first successful use of a previously unperformed capability.
This is a synthetic variation on the paper’s redacted public worked day. It teaches a branch of the model; it is not a private record, observed personal event or empirical finding.
World 02 / 03
Performance in Institutions
Performance · lower value · positive movement
Short answer
Yes. A narrow improvement can matter even when the rate is low.
01 · Moment
Observed time slice
A bounded event with context and provenance.
02 · Economic question
Vcom 600
Typed VC output: 420
03 · Human question
+0.0105 WellbeingScore movement
Wbefore 700.000 → Wafter 700.010
Show the calculation
Four questions, in order.
- 01
Start with the prior state
The event reads Wbefore = 700.000.
- 02
Ask the economic question
Validated rate × duration produces Vcom = 600 hypothetical credits.
- 03
Ask the human-state question
The reviewed input produces deltaW = 0.0105, so Wafter = 700.010.
- 04
Keep the units honest
VCperformance = (Wbefore / 1000) × Vcom = 420 hypothetical credits.
What this means
The rate determines the economic branch. The observed first use supports a separate low positive movement in this synthetic variation.
What it does not mean
One successful use does not establish mastery, persistence or a general learning effect.
Technical layerAudit the calculationInspect statuses, intermediate values, provenance, uncertainty and raw scenario structure.
- Source settlement
- final
- Impact review
- applied
- Replay eligibility
- eligible
- Valuation
- valued
- Projection
- canonical
- Wbefore
- 700.000
- Component delta
- 0.035
- deltaW
- 0.0105
- Wafter
- 700.010
- Vcom_event
- 600
- VCperformance_event
- 420
Pinned implementation calculation
Complete component-transition trace
Every input and intermediate value is carried by the stable synthetic fixture or derived from its pinned issuer-policy snapshot.
- Components before
- { "Physiology": 700, "Emotion": 700, "Feeling": 700, "Thought": 700, "Habit": 700, "Performance": 700 }
- calculated_Wbefore
- 700
- Affected component
- Performance
- component_before
- 700
- Band
- (600,700]
- band_rate
- 0.03
- adjustment_factor
- 0.005
- Direction
- positive
- Intensity
- low
- intensity_multiplier
- 1/3
- maximum_move
- 0.105
- calculated_component_delta
- 0.035
- component_after
- 700.035
- component_weight
- 0.3
- calculated_deltaW
- 0.0105
- calculated_Wafter
- 700.0105
- Typed Vcom_event
- 600
- Typed VCperformance_event
- 420
maximum_move = 700 × 0.03 × 0.005 = 0.105
component_delta = 0.105 × 1/3 × 1 = 0.035
component_after = 700 + (0.035) = 700.035
deltaW = 0.035 × 0.3 = 0.0105
Wafter = 700 + (0.0105) = 700.0105
Vcom_event = validated rate × validated duration = 600
VCperformance_event = (700 / 1000) × 600 = 420
Required case note
Impact justification
- Assumed synthetic evidence
- A synthetic source decision validates three hours at 200 hypothetical credits per hour; the reviewed input records a small first successful use of a previously unperformed capability.
- Reviewed decision input
- positive · low
- Calculation demonstrated
- The calculator applies the pinned HouseOfBros Founder Policy v0.1 transition matrix to the declared component state. It does not infer direction or intensity from the evidence narrative.
- Decision rationale
- Low positive is used because the assumed change is observable but narrow and not yet shown to persist.
- Alternative interpretations
- One successful use may be too weak and support no_transition.
- Uncertainty
- This synthetic case has not been calibrated against observed longitudinal evidence or independent reviewer agreement.
- Evidence-to-intensity rubric
- unvalidated. Direction and intensity are reviewed inputs; the calculator does not infer them from prose.
- Validation research required
- Rate-blinded reviewer studies, repeated demonstrations and follow-up persistence checks.