The Outcome Rules

This lesson converts the course’s target-versus-obstacle categories into a restrained record. The complete table is an explicit UAYA teaching convention, not a received rule, a probability model, or evidence that an outside-world claim is true.

Complete course comparison table

First-match order	Target condition	Obstacle category	Course record
1	no target identified	any	abstain; no target
2	identified target is very strong	weak, very weak, or no comparison category	provisional support-dominant direction; stronger contrast
3	identified target is strong	weak, very weak, or no comparison category	provisional support-dominant direction
4	identified target is very weak or has no comparison category	strong or very strong	provisional obstacle-dominant direction; stronger contrast
5	identified target is weak or very weak	strong or very strong	provisional obstacle-dominant direction
6	any other identified-target pairing	any other resolved pairing	mixed; show the unresolved balance

The missing-target check happens before any category comparison. Then read from top to bottom and use the first matching row. This ordering resolves the overlaps: row 2 owns the very-strong supportive contrast, and row 4 owns the very-weak adverse contrast.

Every result also needs the mechanism and a limit. Never publish a course category as certainty or probability.

Reproducible exercises

Example type: invented qualitative inputs; no real-world outcome.

1. No target, regardless of placeholder categories → row 1 → abstain.
2. Identified target very strong, no obstacle comparison category → row 2 → provisional support-dominant direction; stronger contrast.
3. Identified target strong, no obstacle comparison category → row 3 → provisional support-dominant direction.
4. Identified target very weak, obstacle strong → row 4 → provisional obstacle-dominant direction; stronger contrast.
5. Identified target weak, obstacle strong → row 5 → provisional obstacle-dominant direction.
6. Identified target strong, obstacle strong → row 6 → mixed; show the unresolved balance.

Now attach the original conditions. If the target’s strong category came from a moderate line level, say so. If the obstacle has no comparison category because its line is Void rather than absent, say so.

Source-case boundary

Do not compare any course-table result with a source’s recorded observation as though agreement validated the convention. A historical record and a UAYA course calculation are different evidence classes.

Trap and stopping condition

• Do not convert support-dominant or obstacle-dominant language into certainty.
• Do not continue when target selection or a material adjustment is unresolved.
• Stop when a disagreement between a cited source and a declared course convention could change a category and no precedence has been declared.

Source note

The six-row first-match table, restrained direction labels, and abstention rule are completely stated UAYA teaching conventions. They are not presented as received doctrine or evidence of predictive efficacy.

Next, test whether wider chart context supports or merely distracts from the comparison: Whole-Chart Strength.