C.28:0.4 - First Output

Ordinary first result. Suppose the available comparison says that self-selected teams using method A completed more tasks than teams not using it, while task difficulty and prior team capability were not controlled. Report the observed association; the claim that A caused the improvement remains unsupported by that comparison. The next useful question is whether a design or existing evidence can distinguish the method’s effect from those rival explanations.

This sentence-level result can finish the task. When the triage must be reused, its local form is:

CausalUseTriageRecord:
  causalUseQuestionRef?: CausalUseQuestionRef
  causalUse: yes | no | unclear
  targetCausalityLadderRung?: CausalityLadderRung
  comparatorOrCounterfactualRef?
  availableSupportCues?
  liveThreats?
  supportedUse?
  unsupportedUse?
  nextCausalUseAction

supportedUse states the causal statement or evidential reliance supported under the named limits. unsupportedUse states the nearby stronger statement or reliance left unsupported by that evidence.

nextCausalUseAction =
  stopNoCausalUse |
  reportAssociationOnly |
  keepNonCausalSimulationUse |
  downgradeCausalWording |
  requestIdentificationOrBound |
  requestEstimate |
  requestCounterfactualSamplingRealizabilityCheck |
  requestPerformedSamplingEvidence |
  requestTransportCheck |
  requestEvidenceDesign |
  requestModelConstruction |

  sendFairnessUseToD5BiasAuditReport |
  sendParityUseToG9 |
  abstainDownstream

Triage may be the final result when it blocks the overclaim and names the narrower statement. Do not open a durable object merely because a causal word appears.