The endpoint of an aquifer test is rarely the parameter itself. The endpoint is a decision:
- how much can be pumped;
- how long pumping can continue;
- how much residual head is acceptable;
- how wide the safety margin should be;
- whether recovery will be fast enough.
Transformation uncertainty becomes useful when it reaches that endpoint. Otherwise it remains a methodological concern with unclear practical force.
The operating rule for future papers is therefore strict: a new interpretation framework should show where a flux-gradient mismatch, model pathway, or fitted difference changes a decision, not only where it changes a curve.
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