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A small practice for the last untested link

A practical exercise: Test the action the reader is expected to take.

Original practice · Optional exercise · Things we can finish

Choose a low-stakes example you can change without affecting another person’s private information or commitments.

  1. Describe the current situation in one sentence. The example here is: A page looks finished before its main link has been checked.
  2. Test the action the reader is expected to take.
  3. Compare the result with the difficulty you named. Write one concrete observation.
  4. Keep, adapt, or stop the experiment. A note about why you stopped is a valid result.

Try a question

Which part is an observation, and which part is an assumption you could check?