Discuss Findings

mixed_balanced_wander_gain_mean -9.3909 +/- 0.046912 (d=-200.18, sign-consistent=0.0%); mixed_balanced_energy_gain_mean -0.61034 +/- 0.0012151 (d=-502.29, sign-consistent=0.0%); mixed_tilted_roughness_drop_mean -4.8338 +/- 0.050263 (d=-96.171, sign-consistent=0.0%)

REJECTED. All three metrics are massively negative across 1059 seeds with effect sizes from d=-96 to d=-502 and 100% negative sign consistency. Mixed anisotropic corridors dramatically worsen polymer performance: wandering gain -9.39 (d=-200), energy gain -0.61 (d=-502), and roughness drop -4.83 (d=-96). The corridor competition hypothesis predicted that mixing anisotropy orientations would create beneficial interference patterns, but instead it uniformly degrades both energetic and geometric properties of the directed polymer. The d=-502 on energy gain makes this one of the strongest rejections in the dataset.