C005 — Assessment¶


Research	R0007 — AI Cognitive Amplifier
Run	2026-03-20
Claim	C005

BLUF¶

Schulmeyer did formalize the NNPP concept and estimated up to three out of ten may qualify. However, the concept appeared in the 1987 Handbook of Software Quality Assurance, not 1992. The 1992 reference is to Total Quality Management for Software, a later edition.

Probability¶

Rating: Likely (55-80%)

Confidence in assessment: Medium

Confidence rationale: Based on web-accessible evidence from primary and secondary sources.

Reasoning Chain¶

Schulmeyer states: In a team of ten, expect as many as three people to have a defect rate high enough to make them NNPPs. The probability that there is not even one NNPP out of ten is virtually nil. The concept appeared in the Handbook of Software Quality Assurance (1987) and Total Quality Management for Software (1992). [SRC01-E01, High reliability, High relevance]

Evidence Base Summary¶

Source	Description	Reliability	Relevance	Key Finding
SRC01	Net Negative Producing Programmer	High	High	Schulmeyer did formalize the NNPP concept and estimated up to three out of ten may qualify. However, the concept appeared in the 1987 Handbook of Software Quality Assurance, not 1992. The 1992 reference is to Total Quality Management for Software, a later edition.

Collection Synthesis¶

Dimension	Assessment
Evidence quality	Medium to Robust
Source agreement	High
Source independence	Assessed per claim
Outliers	None identified

Detail¶

Schulmeyer states: In a team of ten, expect as many as three people to have a defect rate high enough to make them NNPPs. The probability that there is not even one NNPP out of ten is virtually nil. The concept appeared in the Handbook of Software Quality Assurance (1987) and Total Quality Management for Software (1992).

Gaps¶

Missing Evidence	Impact on Assessment
Full-text access to primary sources	Low to Moderate

Researcher Bias Check¶

Declared biases: No researcher profile provided.

Influence assessment: Standard claim verification — no specific bias concerns identified.

Cross-References¶

Entity	ID	File
Hypotheses	H1, H2, H3	`hypotheses/`
Sources	SRC01	`sources/`
ACH Matrix	—	`ach-matrix.md`
Self-Audit	—	`self-audit.md`