1. The document reports on an experiment to test whether attributes that are relevant or typical to an ideation task lead to ideas that are more effective or practical. The experiment involved generating analogies and ideas from attributes, then evaluating the ideas. 2. The results did not find evidence that relevant or typical attributes produced better ideas. However, further analysis of the data found that a few highly productive analogies generated as many good ideas as many less productive analogies. Also, analogies reached through more attributes tended to generate higher quality ideas. 3. The conclusions were that the choice of attributes may not determine idea quality, but the selection of analogies could be automated and attributes and analogies are better suited to brainstorm