RHY.14:4.5 - Compare the observations and keep their consequences distinct

Compare passages under conditions sufficiently alike for the intended claim. Preserve or vary the condition that the decision actually concerns. A short within-person or within-pair comparison may settle a local choice; a population or causal claim requires its own suitable design.

Inspect the sequence and the important individual contrasts before relying on a summary. Include missed actions, interrupted continuation and the participant or partner response when they change use. A better timing average can coexist with a less usable phrase; one listener can prefer the same passage for dancing and another for listening.

Keep technical, perceptual, interaction and burden results on their own grounds. Use C.16 and A.19.CPM for measurement and comparison questions. Use MDPE.12 when the result must join broader performance, recognition or cultural evidence; use the relevant choice Method for the later decision.

Return what was observed, the task and relevant conditions, the comparison it supports and the remaining limitation. A source trace, short annotated recording or demonstrated contrast is enough when it makes that use recoverable. A formal record is not an additional prerequisite for every rehearsal.

Stop when the receiving decision is supported or the material unknown is named. Use C.11.DUA if the value of further observation is unclear. Reopen only the affected comparison when its event convention, detector, passage, participant, support or observation task changes.

Local mantra: choose the needed result; match the relevant events or course; observe the receiving response; preserve consequential differences; return a bounded comparison.