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Week 9 Quiz

Checking whether this week's method-generalisation reading landed.

Week 9

Five questions on this week’s synthesis of the elevator, seat-saving, and transit-space cases.

1. This week doesn't introduce a new physical space. What does it do instead?

Re-applies the course's method to three cases already built earlier in the course
Introduces a fourth new common-manners case
Retires the Bad manner / Good manner framework
Focuses entirely on legal enforcement of etiquette

2. What two questions does this week ask of each revisited case?

What makes the act deniable or contestable, and what the Good manner version actually costs
Who is legally liable, and what the penalty should be
How often the act occurs, and where
Whether the act is illegal, and whether it is enforced

3. Across the three revisited cases (elevator, seat-saving, transit space), what does the Good manner version consistently share?

It costs less than the harm the Bad manner version imposes on someone else
It always requires a formal apology
It always involves reporting the incident to staff
It eliminates the norm entirely

4. Why does the lecture say re-testing a method on cases you already understand is still meaningful?

A method that only works on the case it was built for hasn't actually been tested
Because those cases are the hardest in the whole course
Because the earlier weeks' verdicts were wrong
It isn't meaningful — it's just a review for its own sake

5. What does the Isolate–Contest–Verdict (ICV) Protocol actually add to the method used in Weeks 2 through 8?

A name — the three steps themselves are identical
A fourth step, verification, not used in earlier weeks
A legal enforcement mechanism
A numeric score replacing the Bad manner / Good manner verdict

Related

Week 9: Towards a Unified Theory of Deniable Discourtesy
Week 9 Tutorial: Re-Testing the Isolate–Contest–Verdict Protocol

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