HCD.6:2 - Problem

The common shortcut is surface variation: change the industry, numbers, names, or diagram while leaving the same Method and answer obvious. Repetition may improve familiarity without showing whether the person can recognize applicability or adapt the Method.

The opposite shortcut maximizes authenticity. A full production case includes so many uncontrolled dependencies, missing inputs, risks, and specialist decisions that neither learner nor practitioner can tell which contribution changed. Complexity becomes noise rather than representation.

A third shortcut treats refusal as the safest universal answer. It can hide a real capability gap when sufficient evidence is present and action is required. The task set must include both missing-evidence and sufficient-evidence cases when the target contribution depends on that distinction.