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PSD.10:8 - Common Anti-Patterns and How to Avoid Them
| Anti-pattern | Repair |
| “Confidence is eighty percent.” | Say whose judgement, about which proposition, under what evidence and probability interpretation. |
| Give three scenarios equal probability because three were drawn. | Retain scenario-conditional claims until a distribution is justified. |
| Average incompatible model outputs. | Locate the disputed proposition and keep the alternative assumptions or exact gap. |
| Discard uncertainty common to all candidates. | Check whether it changes absolute admissibility or shows that all fail. |
| Commission more data without a decision question. | State which possible answer could change the comparison or its use. |
| Replace missing holder evidence with another holder’s success. | Request the exact transfer or applicability result; retain the blocker if it is unavailable. |