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NOT.6:8 - Common Anti-Patterns and How to Avoid Them

FailureRepair
Placing representations together and leaving their connection implicitConstruct the referent mapping and perform a joined reading.
Treating a shared label as identity between an object, its model and its encodingState the relation between those different things, as in B9, L and the mesh.
Treating two generated displays as independent confirmationTrace their common source and identify which new question a comparison can actually test.
Freezing all old displayed values during a local editSeparate the changed requirement from earlier derived context; :5.1 shows the difference.
Erasing an observation to make it agree with a predictionPreserve the observation and return the discrepancy to the subject account.
Adding another representation to every explanationRetain it for a useful operation and compare the added navigation or maintenance burden.