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Diagnosis and repair asymmetry
Also called diagnosis-repair asymmetry.
Evidence accumulates on what a system was caught doing and does not transfer to the fix proposed for it, because an observation describes a state that occurred while a repair makes a claim about every state that has not. A report that grades its findings and its recommendation on one scale invites the reader to spend the credibility of the first on the second; grading them separately, in the same table, is the instrument reporting the size of its own error.