RMP.7:4.1 - State the question and test the supplied answer

Name the subject, comparison or interpretive concern, relevant context and period, and the kind of conclusion wanted. A mean difference, explanation, account of experiences and claim about a historical sequence ask different questions even when they concern the same topic.

Inspect any supplied synthesis for the same question, relevant source coverage, Method, actual findings, limitations and current receiving use. If it already supplies an adequate answer, return that answer with the source and qualifications that change reliance. Reopen only a changed premise or uncovered question.

Otherwise establish the actual source set against the selected design: what was eligible, sought, obtained, excluded or unavailable, and why those choices bear on this answer. Systematic-coverage claims need the corresponding search and selection work. A deliberately bounded corpus can answer its bounded question without claiming to represent every study.

Return a changed question to RMP.1, an unsettled synthesis design to RMP.2, an operational problem to RMP.3 or an actual-material problem to RMP.4. An adequate supplied input needs no recreation of those earlier activities.