Therefore, emphasis on future interviews should be on improving the competence of the persons who deliver these educational sessions.
Of course, as with any assessment of competence for the purposes of health care decision-making, if an individual physician is uncertain about the competence of the person making a request, she must take all necessary steps to resolve this uncertainty (e.g. consulting with a colleague with greater experience or expertise).
More specifically, a legal assistant is one who engages in the functions set forth in Guideline 2. Nothing contained in these guidelines shall be construed as a determination of the competence of any person performing the functions of a legal assistant, or as conferring status upon any such person serving as a legal assistant.
Starting that fall, and through the following spring, Todorov showed pairs of portraits to roughly a thousand people, and asked them to rate the competence of each person.
In a nutshell, people in a group tend to assign equal weight to other's opinions, regardless of actual competence of the person holding that opinion.
This step of simplification/abstraction has been used in different biomimetic methods, but so far, it has an arbitrary component, i.e. it crucially depends on the competence of the person who executes the abstraction.
Does the race, or even the competence, of that person matter in regard to how people are treated ?
Three patients were resuscitated within the competences of lay persons (in all three cases administration of defibrillation using an automatic external defibrillator resulting in return of spontaneous circulation, breathing and return of consciousness).
