HCD.12:9 - Consequences

The practitioner gets a precise next target rather than a general judgement that someone “cannot transfer.” A well-chosen small case can distinguish rigid repetition, cue dependence and useful adaptation without a large new examination.

The cost is explicit novelty and criterion design. Broader variation needs more evidence, and some failures remain ambiguous. That ambiguity is preferable to prescribing the wrong intervention. More refusals or a higher final score can be worse when they hide loss of justified action or increased dependence on feedback.