CAUSAL-USE — Keep a causal-looking result within its support
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- Situation: A correlation, estimate, simulation, or comparison is being used to say that an action will cause an outcome.
- Question: What causal statement may the evidence support, and what stronger statement must not guide intervention or investigation?
- First useful result or honest blocker: A supported statement and its limit, or the missing alternative, intervention, comparator, evidence path, identification result, or transport basis.
- Start with:
C.28. - Stop or return: Stop, narrow the claim, or abstain when support is insufficient. The causal-use result does not choose, deploy, publish, or certify by itself.
Last Updated: 2026-09-03 — upstream FPF commit b999972c (github.com/ailev/FPF)