Related to this is [[EVD - In a design team, concepts tended to be more similar to their immediately preceding concepts after far analogy use compared to using near or no analogies - @chanImpactAnalogiesCreative2015]]. This isn't *quite* a measure of novelty as we normally think of it (the reference for similarity is concepts generated in the last 10 or 5 lines). But it at least opposes the idea that you might be primarily using far analogies to get some distance from where you currently are.