An Adequate Reminder
Participants may understand the short explanation through shared context.
Competing ReadingsRisk Reduced Risk Shifted
Synthetic · Simulation/As of
Can a Complete Form Still Leave the Judgment Unexplained?
A review form has an entry in every required field. Its explanation repeats the decision without showing why an alternative was rejected.
- Who Asks
- A later reviewer
- Who Is Affected
- People relying on the decision
- Who Can Revise
- The decision author
Traces in This ScenarioInvented, not observed
Every required field contains text.
The reasons field states the chosen action but does not compare alternatives.
The Assumption
Completing the form is assumed to preserve the reasoning behind the choice.
Where the Readings Split
Keep the difference visibleAn Unreadable Decision
A later reader cannot tell what would have made the other option preferable.
Follow the Risk
A complete form makes required information easier to locate.
Later readers must reconstruct the reasoning without the original context.