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RMP.2:7 - Conformance Checklist

Apply the questions to the actual disposition. A sufficient answer or QualifiedNoNewStudy does not fill unused selected-design or PostSelectionNeed positions; a hold states the missing dependency without asserting a commitment to acquire it.

  • RMP2-01: A compatible ResearchQuestionBrief and qualified current frame are supplied; a changed brief is returned to RMP.1.
  • RMP2-02: The receiver, evidence use, answer condition, work-stop conditions and separate later-decision authority remain visible.
  • RMP2-03: EvidenceSufficientStop is tested before new evidence-producing Work is selected.
  • RMP2-04: Evidence sufficiency covers the brief’s scope, serious rival, provenance/currentness, uncertainty, and bounded use.
  • RMP2-05: Constraint, cost, preference, or low priority is not mislabeled as evidence sufficiency.
  • RMP2-06: The actual serious options address the same brief; a sole real research relation is judged against no new study without a quota of invented alternatives.
  • RMP2-07: A feasible incumbent or routine alternative is retained when it is serious.
  • RMP2-08: Every option states question fit, evidence relation, criticism, validity threats, external results, information gain, burden, refusal, and continuation.
  • RMP2-09: Experimental, observational, qualitative, historical, computational, synthesis, and mixed families remain unlike; none is a mandatory successor or universal rank.
  • RMP2-10: The selected option can expose the principal error or rival named in the brief.
  • RMP2-11: Rejected alternatives and their actual losses are recorded without straw versions.
  • RMP2-12: Construct/mechanism, observation/source, instrument/measurement, case/site, ethics/safety/rights, access, resource/provider, and authority inputs are distinguished.
  • RMP2-13: Exact supplied owner results are separated from assumptions and missing values.
  • RMP2-14: Every unresolved load-bearing value is tested with at least two plausible results and design consequences.
  • RMP2-15: A value that prevents a still-needed selection by changing family, core contrast, criticism, feasibility or refusal produces ResearchDesignHold; an unknown does not create a pending investigation when the present allocation is already settled as QualifiedNoNewStudy.
  • RMP2-16: ResearchDesignHold names the missing result, owner, affected candidates, plausible consequences, prohibited next Work, and reopen condition without commissioning acquisition.
  • RMP2-17: A hold names no provisional selected design.
  • RMP2-18: Every PostSelectionNeed has a bounded admissible range and an invariant-family/invariant-criticism argument.
  • RMP2-19: A PostSelectionNeed value outside the admitted range reopens selection.
  • RMP2-20: An empty PostSelectionNeed set is written explicitly as none.
  • RMP2-21: One of EvidenceSufficientStop, ResearchDesignDecision plus genuine PostSelectionNeed, ResearchDesignHold, or QualifiedNoNewStudy answers the present selection boundary. QualifiedNoNewStudy preserves insufficient evidence or a bounded answer and the reason no new study is selected.
  • RMP2-22: Only an actual ResearchDesignDecision or supplied equivalent supports entry to RMP.3; it is a prospective strategy, not a protocol, performed Work, authorization, evidence result, or receiving choice.
  • RMP2-23: Expected information gain is tied to a live uncertainty and useful stop rather than prestige or data volume.
  • RMP2-24: Reporting guidance is not treated as design selection or proof of execution.
  • RMP2-25: Domain truth, measurement, instruments, ethics, safety, rights, access, resources, assurance, and authority remain with their owners.
  • RMP2-26: The worked cases distinguish the four outcomes under different supplied values and preserve a genuinely worthwhile obtainable study, a true selection-changing hold, and external receiving authority.