DTM.4:4.5 - Express the result as conditional continuations

Give the conditions and their consequences together:

• the surrounding regime in which a rare variant grows or declines;
• the maintained regimes relevant to the question;
• initial conditions or interventions that distinguish reachable continuations;
• the observations or changed assumptions that would defeat the account.

Use the existing comparison and portfolio methods when several actions remain viable. DTM.1 preserves whose consequences are being compared. DTM.6/.9 reopen the law when another variant or protective response changes the surrounding regime.

Stop with the weakest supported claim that answers the practical question. A useful conditional threshold need not become an unconditional prediction, and a qualitative return may be enough to reject an ineffective intervention.