✅ Checkpoint: Framing and Evidence Sorting

By Better Wise

Quiz

  1. Which sentence is a decision statement rather than a situation report?
    • Should Ana replace week-one shadowing with a paid buddy rotation by 1 May, triggered by the next hire date?
    • Everyone is worried about the vendor contract renewal, we should probably look at it soon.
    • Onboarding is a mess and two new hires already look disengaged.
    • Improve onboarding across the whole company this year.
  2. Which of these are framing traps described in the lesson? Select all that apply.
    • The solution smuggled into the question, so alternatives never get compared
    • The ranked goal, which forces a trade-off between priorities
    • The pre-registered success criterion, written before the choice is made
    • The compound decision, which bundles several choices into one question
    • The borrowed decision, which belongs to someone else while you only advise
  3. A decision deadline is when the ____ must be made, not when the outcome becomes visible.
  4. A colleague says: 'The role must be within 45 minutes of my mother's care home.' How should this be sorted?
    • An assumption, because it has not been tested yet
    • A hard constraint, because it has a real source and violation removes the option
    • A soft constraint, because it only costs points in the comparison
    • A preference, because it reflects a personal taste
  5. Which properties must a testable success criterion have? Select all that apply.
    • Tied to a named goal
    • Time-bound
    • Observable
    • Threshold-based
    • Written after the result is known
  6. Dressing up a preference as a rule so the debate ends without evidence is called constraint ____.
  7. A vendor case study claims 'teams like ours cut reporting time by 40 percent.' How should you treat it?
    • Anchor evidence, because it contains a number
    • A preference, because the vendor wants you to buy
    • A lead to test, because reliability is moderate (the vendor benefits) and relevance is uncertain (their baseline may differ)
    • A hard constraint, because it sets an expectation
  8. Take your project decision and write its one-page frame: a one-sentence decision statement, three ranked goals, hard and soft constraints with sources, and one primary success criterion. Then explain how you would test your riskiest assumption.

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