When someone looks good on paper but is less competent in real life, is it ethical to act against someone to ensure that the work goes to someone who is a better fit?
The female students in this study demonstrated that they were more nervous about using technology than males, and were less competent in the use of computer hardware.
Conversely those with slower infant motor development may well have poorer motor skills and be less competent in sports and therefore potentially less likely to enjoy and participate in such activities.
Most importantly, EPCs from diabetic individual are less competent in repairing vascular injuries [ 23, 25, 26].
When compared to non-obese children, obese children feel they are less competent in their social and athletic abilities as well as less attractive and worthwhile [ 1].
One explanation for the occurrence of this phenomenon is that 4n cells may be less competent in turning into embryonic tissues.
This, in turn, shifts additional technical duties to lower status workers such as Nurse Midwives and Clinical Officers who are less competent in the area of HIV as is also noted in the Manongi et al. [ 8] study.
To illustrate, Davies et al. [ 14] and Katz et al. [ 13] found that children exposed to IPV were less competent in modulating their emotions than children who were not exposed to IPV.
In other studies, Ragneskog and Gerdner [ 10] and McBride and Nagle [ 17] compared the attitudes of nursing students and registered nurses towards use of computers in practice, found that the registered nurses believed students nurses were less competent in IT skills, while the two groups faced different challenges.
The perception that HEWs' may be less competent in assisting births, the huge workload they already have, poorly equipped health posts and strong cultural beliefs supporting home births, make it unreasonable at the present time to expect substantial change in where and how women give birth.
