RMP.2:4.6 - Compare on One Decision-Bearing Canvas
Compare the actual options on the following decision-bearing positions. Reuse the existing brief, evidence and owner results; a compact explanation can carry a small comparison.
| Comparison position | Required content |
|---|---|
| question and use fit | Exact brief positions addressed, intended episteme change, receiver, and useful stop. |
| evidence relation | Family-level cases/units/materials/corpus, intervention/exposure, observations or sources, comparisons, and analysis intention. |
| criticism logic | Principal error or rival exposed, defeating/narrowing result, and live threats left outside. |
| validity and transfer | Internal, measurement, source, construct, interpretive, contextual, external, or intended-use limits that matter to this claim. |
| supplied owner results | Current domain, source, instrument, access, ethics, safety, rights, authority, resource, and provider results; unresolved values stay explicit. |
| expected information gain | Which live uncertainty can change, how the result discriminates options or claims, and when added Work has no useful gain. |
| burden and refusal | Obtaining the needed inputs, preparation, execution and interpretation; time, cost, participants, materials, compute, risk, irreversibility, joint resource limits, displaced Work, and refusal or recovery condition. |
| continuation | Later operationalization/trace needs, stop, and exact premise change that reopens family selection. |
Do not collapse the comparison into an unqualified score. A bounded decision rule may combine coordinates, but protected constraints, unlike losses, and unknowns remain visible. One feasible option still has to warrant its burden compared with no new study; imaginary rivals add no protection.