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

Misuse	Why it changes the work	Repair
Rewarding unpredictable observations as if they resolved uncertainty	A random source can consume the query budget while leaving the relevant hypotheses unchanged.	Identify which observation updates beliefs about the question being investigated.
Requiring a stepping stone to justify a distant objective	The eventual use may become visible only after the construction is varied or combined with another.	Judge the available exploration or retention opportunity from its present basis.
Applying “moderate complexity” across agents and tasks	The learner’s available methods or the listener’s familiar structure can change which material is usable.	Recover the varying characteristic and the agent-relative comparison.
Treating one participant’s interest as the project’s entire choice rule	Other participants can bear different consequences.	State the affected stakes before the applicable decision method compares options.