(p. 664)[1]Ideally the test will help reveal whether status quo bias is an important causal factor in the initial judgement.
Consider a scenario in which a natural factor threatens to move the parameter in one direction and ask whether it would be good to counterbalance this change by an intervention to preserve the status quo.
If not, then there is a strong prima facie case for thinking that it would be good to make the first intervention even in the absence of the natural countervailing factor."
It also purports to handle arguments of evolutionary adaptation, transition costs, risk, and societal ethics that can counter the other test.
[4] Christian Weidemann argues that the double reversal test can muddy the water; guaranteeing and weighing transition costs versus benefits might be the relevant practical ethical question for much human enhancement analysis.