Context: The stemmatic method's final step is emendatio, also sometimes referred to as "conjectural emendation." But in fact, the critic employs conjecture at every step of the process. Some of the method's rules that are designed to reduce the exercise of editorial judgment do not necessarily produce the correct result. For example, where there are more than two witnesses at the same level of the tree, normally the critic will select the dominant reading. However, it may be no more than fortuitous that more witnesses have survived that present a particular reading. A plausible reading that occurs less often may, nevertheless, be the correct one.

Question: What is the last step in the stemmatic method?
Answer: emendatio

Question: At what point can a critic using the stemmatic become less concerned with critical analysis?
Answer: the critic employs conjecture at every step of the process

Question: Why may the dominant reading may be the weaker reading?
Answer: , it may be no more than fortuitous that more witnesses have survived that present a particular reading

Question: What is the first step in the stemmatic method?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What judgement produces the correct result?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: Which reading does the critic select when there are only two witnesses at the same tree?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: A reading that occurs left often is always considered what?
Answer: Unanswerable