MDPE.19:3.6 - Return the supported continuation account or decision
State the smallest conclusion supported by the available basis. Distinguish a qualified current account from a performed test:
| Supported conclusion | Useful decision |
|---|---|
| Reproduction survived the relevant change | Continue the named arrangement for the stated horizon; retain the test and recheck condition. |
| Current evidence supports reproduction under one named dependent arrangement | Continue within that supported horizon, retaining the dependence and any unknown replacement. Strengthening the relation or testing replacement is a separate choice. |
| Reproduction succeeded after the arrangement changed | Keep or continue the arrangement only for the tested scope; monitor the reproduced Work, dependencies, and burdens moved elsewhere. This result alone does not identify what caused the difference. |
A C.28 result supports the selected change’s causal contribution | Use the weakest supported contribution claim needed by the decision; preserve the comparison, scope, alternatives, uncertainty, and moved burdens. |
| Current reproduction failed, but restoration conditions are available | Propose or authorize a restoration trial only if its attainable contribution warrants its full burden; retain the direct Method, performer capability, source basis, support, permission and stop condition. An available but unwarranted trial need not be undertaken. |
| One provider no longer supports the practice | Retire only that provider’s class, event, repertoire membership, service, or publication; make no wider loss claim without evidence. |
| Observation supports absence in a stated population, place, and period | Acknowledge bounded loss, preserve useful source material, and state what later observation would revise the conclusion. |
| Evidence cannot distinguish the live alternatives | Finish the qualified account or decision supported across those alternatives. Select one useful attainable observation only when its contribution warrants its whole burden; otherwise keep the uncertainty and withhold claims that depend on resolving it. |
A useful return fits in one paragraph:
The current social-dance practice reproduces under its normal weekly arrangement but fails when the lead teacher-organizer is absent: assistants can demonstrate figures yet cannot sustain partner-responsive improvisation or run the event. The school will co-teach the next six sessions, give two assistants organizing responsibility, and then repeat the test with varied partners and music. Until that test succeeds, the school may claim current enactment supported by one fragile arrangement, not distributed continuation of the practice.
Include the evidence limits, deciding Agent, authority, affected Agents, cost, and recheck condition when they change the decision. The decision is not the practice, the intervention Work, or the later cultural result.