Evaluate Non Example: 10 Evidence-Based Coaching Practices
Describe almost anything you are working through and IX Coach finds the practices whose real-world fit is closest. For Evaluate Non Example, these are the strongest matches in the current practice library.
About 2 minutes
Try it here: test an example against the idea
Write one example that fits the idea, and one that does not. Comparing them shows what the idea really means.
Write one example that fits the idea you are learning, and one that does not.
Practices that may help
- Recognize when contrast is being used on you
Awareness of the contrast principle is the antidote — evaluate options against an independent standard, not the presented sequence.
The Contrast Principle, Made Practical - Check whether you’ve moved past the novice stage before continuing with examples
Periodically test whether you can solve problems from scratch — if you can, examples are now slowing you down.
The Worked Examples Effect: Learn Faster by Studying Solutions First - Compare two examples side-by-side to extract the underlying principle
Place two worked examples next to each other and find exactly what is the same, structurally, beneath the surface differences.
The Worked Examples Effect: Learn Faster by Studying Solutions First - Apply the double-standard check: would I accept this reasoning if it pointed the other way?
Test whether you are holding your team’s arguments to a lower bar than the other side’s.
The Scout Mindset - Use non-examples to sharpen concept boundaries
Study what a concept is not — cases that almost fit — to prevent over-generalization.
Concrete Examples: How to Make Abstract Ideas Stick - Name the prototype you’re comparing against before deciding
Make the prototype you’re using as a reference explicit — hidden templates bias decisions without scrutiny.
The Representativeness Heuristic — Judging by Resemblance - Expect extreme results to regress toward average
Unusually good or bad performance predicts more average performance next time — account for this before giving praise or blame.
The Representativeness Heuristic — Judging by Resemblance - Run a mental simulation before committing to a course of action
Before acting on a recognized situation, mentally run through how your intended response plays out.
Recognition-Primed Decision Making - Use multiple varied examples to map the concept’s true shape
Three different examples reveal what one example hides — the edges of the concept.
Concrete Examples: How to Make Abstract Ideas Stick - Score decision quality separately from outcome quality
Judge the process you used — not whether it worked — when you review a past decision.
Decision Journaling: Learning to Decide Better Over Time
Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I walked out of that sales pitch about to say yes to the "middle" option, and only later did it hit me that the pricey one they showed first was probably there just to make this one feel reasonable
- I’ve been comfortably reading through examples for a while and it feels productive, but I’m starting to wonder if I’m past needing them and just hiding in the easy part
- I sense two of these examples are really doing the same thing underneath, but I can’t quite put my finger on what
- I wave through arguments on my side that I’d tear apart in a heartbeat if the other side made them
- I keep calling things by this concept that turn out not to be it at all
Related concerns
- Evaluate Non Examples
Periodically test whether you can solve problems from scratch — if you can, examples are now slowing you down.
Check whether you’ve moved past the novice stage before continuing with examples
- Definition Of Non Example
Study what a concept is not — cases that almost fit — to prevent over-generalization.
Use non-examples to sharpen concept boundaries
- Example And Non Example
Three different examples reveal what one example hides — the edges of the concept.
Use multiple varied examples to map the concept’s true shape
- Example Of A Non Example
Study what a concept is not — cases that almost fit — to prevent over-generalization.
- Examples And Nonexamples
Three different examples reveal what one example hides — the edges of the concept.
- Examples Of Non Examples
Study what a concept is not — cases that almost fit — to prevent over-generalization.
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