The Courtesy Check: score one object yourself

The Courtesy Check turns the published rubric into questions about one specific object: the thing in your hand, in your cart, or in your closet. It uses the same six pillars, the same weights, and the same three caps described in how we score, Courtesy Score version 1.1. Every question asks about something you can check by hand, in a manual, or with the maker. Pillar questions take Yes, Partly, No, or Don't know; the three cap questions take Yes, No, or Don't know.

Don't know is an honest answer, never a zero. The check leaves those questions out of the math and works out how far they could still move the result. It shows a number only when the open questions could not push the result into a different band; otherwise it shows the range and three unanswered questions from the most heavily weighted pillars.

The Quick Check asks one question per pillar and gives a triage. The Full Check asks all thirty, and the Full Check is the score. Nothing you answer here is saved, sent, or counted: the check runs entirely on this page, and reloading it clears every answer.

Choose a check

First, the three findings that cap a score

A confirmed Yes to any of these sets a ceiling that no other answer can lift, and when more than one applies, the strictest ceiling holds. Don't know never sets one, because a cap fires only on positive knowledge.

The pillar questions

Answer what you can. Yes counts 2 points, Partly 1, and No 0, and each pillar is scored out of 10 from its Yes, Partly, and No answers. A pillar with no usable answer drops out and the other weights renormalize, exactly as in the score tables on the category pages. In the Quick Check, each pillar shows its one triage question.

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