RMP.9:9 - Consequences

A team can finish with useful retention or a small verified correction, while consequential Method weaknesses still receive investigation when its value and feasibility warrant it. Users of a revised Method receive its supported conditions and the specific consequences for their research.

The price is careful diagnosis and judgement. A large Method change may require substantial evidence, capability, transition and maintenance work. The pattern identifies that work; it does not make it inexpensive or supply professional competence.

Reopen when criticism, instruments, tools, receiving conditions, relevant sources, practical burdens or observed use change the supported decision. A later discovery affecting one analysis need not invalidate every use of the Method.