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Can a person check the answer cheaply?

Selection is an economic question: the verification effort must be proportionate to the value of producing the answer.

Estimate production volume, manual effort, review effort, and the cost of an escaped error. Then test the balance. A fast output that takes longer to verify than to produce is not a quality improvement; it is a new control burden.

Map the candidate against neighbouring use cases. A portfolio full of appraisal work can make inspection faster while leaving prevention untouched—the appraisal trap.