Still, the official said: "What we had was, we thought, a rather competent judgment that they in fact had taken the program on and produced weapons and agent".
It is natural to think that competent judgment about fiscal policy requires expert training in economics akin to a physician's training in medicine.
ORs > 1 indicate higher odds of a competent judgment when a characteristic is present, ORs <1 a lower odds.
First, we entered all child variables simultaneously into a multiple logistic model to examine their association with a competent judgment as expressed by the Wald-test statistic and associated p-value.
The ethicists Art Caplan and Jonathan Moreno argued in an op-ed recently that Presidential candidates should undergo examinations by an independent panel of doctors, not just their own, because "even competent physicians' judgments and recommendations can vary, especially when they know what the stakes are for their wannabe-president patients".
A positive parental competence judgment was associated with a 10-fold higher odds of a competence decision (Table 1), however parents judged their children more easily competent than the experts did.
Once we have the internalist thesis about the necessary connection between moral judgment and motivation, it seems we have, as it were, the whole story: if an individual makes a moral judgment, she is, ceteris paribus, motivated; if she is not motivated, she was not making a sincere and competent moral judgment at all, appearances to the contrary notwithstanding.
The truth is, of course, that if companies wanted to become competent to make judgments and speak out on human rights, they could do so rather quickly.
His view that citizens are not competent to make judgments about public policy, that economics and policy are areas of expertise like the physician's, is profoundly undemocratic.
Walter Reed saluted Carter when he said, "I know of no one more competent to pass judgment on all that pertains to the subject of yellow fever.
