HCD.16:4.5 - Settle the current result before selecting further inquiry

First state what the available evidence supports for this repertoire use and which comparison remains unresolved. Retain supported practice, narrow an unsupported claim, or stop a use whose real protection condition is not met. None requires designing a study merely to finish the current account.

Select further probe only when a new observation is obtainable in the relevant window and could change the disposition enough to warrant its whole burden. Include designing and describing the inquiry, learner and provider time, preparation, practice, feedback, comparison, delay, specialist access and displaced development or protective Work. A plausible discriminating question does not itself supply people, authority, time or access. Use C.11.DUA when that evidence-demand judgement needs appraisal.

For a selected probe, specify the person’s first attempt, allowed help, representative change, source and tool conditions, provider contribution, delay or support contrast when material, critical-error condition, protected contributions, complete burden, stopping rule and decision-changing observations. Keep the target-domain criteria and safety boundary with their owners. An unavailable or unwarranted probe leaves the strongest supported current result and the dependent uncertainty.

A generic Method trial, Method admission, variant decision, or organization rollout remains with ME or another direct owner. HCD.16 selects only the human-development inquiry needed for this bounded repertoire use. Its selection or design is not an obtained observation.