HCD.17:4.7 - Settle the continuation and select inquiry only when it contributes

Retain credible hypotheses whose differences could change this continuation or warranted claim. Examples include carrier sufficiency versus coached feedback, formal selection versus local workaround, community participation versus supervisor access, or remembered description versus repeated receiving Work. Do not invent a second explanation to reach a fixed count. An explanation may remain unresolved while the current bounded practice is worth continuing.

Compare retaining the current arrangement, changing one Method/support/assessment/carrier relation, branching for a bounded population, replacing the means, and stopping or reverting where material. Use sufficient existing local judgement and observations for the present decision. Keep the population and evidence limits that matter; no stable population distribution or complete cultural history is required for a narrower claim.

When a material uncertainty, changed receiving condition, or protective concern makes inquiry useful, identify what an attainable observation could change. Compare its whole contribution and burden through C.11.DUA when that demand needs appraisal; use C.11 for an already formed bounded choice and the direct HCD or field Method for the selected inquiry. Recover participants, provider capability, access, resources, opportunity window, and authorization that determine feasibility. For a selected intervention, retain reversibility, burden and protection limits, the discriminating expectation, negative case, and response rule. unknown withholds the unresolved claim, not an independently supported continuation. An unavailable or unhelpful trial does not become a completion task.