While we are never forced to vote based on one factor alone, the apparent predictive power of competence judgements reveal how deeply that quick impression may color our evaluation of more serious considerations.
Acknowledging the problems with the police, President Dmitri A. Medvedev recently ordered a revamp of the force — based on tests of competence and character — that is expected to reduce its size by about 200,000 officers, to just over a million nationwide.
Earlier, Vaz had told South Yorkshire police chief constable David Crompton that his force had shown "gross lack of competence" in its dealings with the BBC.
"It is the opinion of this committee that your force lacks competence," Vaz replied.
They worked in a lithographic style of considerable artistic competence, without the force of Nast or the effortless flow of Daumier, but with plenty of clever analogies and with an understanding of the sort of likeness required in caricature.
Now, as the old adage goes, correlation does not equal causation, but this study has forced us all to look at the odd, at times uncomfortable, intersection of competence and beauty in business.
According to Vygostky's theoretical approach, a driving force for individual cognitive development is the social interaction between learners with different levels of competence [ 9].
Competence varies widely within species, but the underlying causes are unknown; understanding the genetic architecture of competence in natural populations could lead to a better understanding of the evolutionary forces that maintain it.
With so much destroyed, humans would be forced out of the era of high technology, since precisely that technology would have unraveled the skein of competence until only the lowest technology was left.
By contrast, according to the military report, the American and Coalition forces knew little about the insurgency: "Human intelligence is poor or lacking... due to the dearth of competence and expertise...
These are matters of competence and leadership.
