Which Candidates Are Worth Passing to a Second Stage?
Abstract
Top-design retention and opportunity-cost subset selection differ in the way they value exclusions. Their comparison needs an explicit later evaluator and common checking requirements. It reports valuable excluded candidates, weak retained candidates, and total subsequent work. A favorable initial membership score cannot determine the appropriate set size without that second-stage accounting. This focused synthesis develops an empirical comparison that preserves the terminal action, observation process, and total verification cost. Its proposed tests are prospective; no new simulation run, model-training result, or intervention effect is reported.
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