RMP.3:9 - Consequences

The practitioner can see which choices merely complete a selected design and which change its ability to answer. Records are planned early enough to preserve important distinctions, and existing qualified procedures remain usable without duplicate paperwork.

The cost is deliberate explanation of choices that might otherwise remain tacit. Some apparently ready studies will return to design selection or await an external result. This cost is justified when it prevents work whose observations could never answer the intended question. The method does not guarantee a useful finding or remove domain uncertainty.