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Week 6 Case Review: Trust test design

Auditing who initiates the small reversible tests in your case, and who only ever responds to one

29 March 2027

Before the session

List the last three small trust tests in your case (a favour, a disclosure, a small plan) and name who proposed each.

In the session

Groups tally proposer counts across everyone’s cases and look at the distribution. A case where one party has proposed zero of the last several tests is treated as a finding worth writing down, not an insult to that party’s character.

Afterwards

Note the proposer split in your running case file — the case study portfolio due in week 9 asks for this pattern across a set of cases, not just one.

The spec

What you bring to the session. Written so a reader can tell whether it has been met without asking you.

Teaching team