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CB.10:8 - Common Anti-Patterns and How to Avoid Them

FailureBetter move
Treat more posts or attendance as the promised benefitFollow the activity into the experience or receiving work that matters.
Collect only promotional success storiesRecover specific use, conditions, cost and negative or incomplete outcomes.
Call an available guide an acquired capabilityObtain the relevant capability or use evidence, or retain the weaker access claim.
Attribute an outcome because the person belongs to the communityRecover the contribution and use a causal method when the causal difference is the question.
Explain a trend after the population or definition changedCompare like observations or retain the change as a limit.
Make every participant file a complete value story after every eventCollect what can change the live decision and use voluntary, proportionate returns.
Measure indefinitely without changing anythingMake the receiving decision, revise the inquiry or stop collection that no longer helps.