We didn't want it to feel like it has a prescriptive behavior".
However, Wenger has objected to associating his notion of community with culture or prescriptive behavior [ 42], and has preferred instead to emphasize their creative possibilities.
One distinction business ethicists make to analyze this kind of question is between descriptive ethics (generally accepted norms of behavior, or what people do) and prescriptive ethics (normative behavior, or what people should do).
"Abandon knowledge" means do not guide your behavior using prescriptive discourse a learned daoguide.
In my experience, high performing data-driven organizations are able to graduate from descriptive use of analytics (describing the past), to predictive use of analytics (identifying future trends based on regression analysis), to prescriptive use of analytics (changing behavior based on prediction, aimed at increasing the likelihood of achieving desired outcomes).
Taxes are, in fact, a far cheaper and less coercive way to curtail such behavior than laws or prescriptive regulations.
The tax code in America has become prescriptive: by creating tax breaks for "desired behavior" like getting married, procreating, giving to charity and buying houses, it creates a system of rewards and punishments for social behavior that the government should have no business creating.
While acknowledging the criticisms, that it cannot apply to the EU because it was developed to describe countries with deep social cleavages, etc., I find it useful nevertheless as a descriptive framework, not a deterministic or prescriptive model of European supranational or state behavior.
Using these methods on quick field experimentation of user characteristics, such as user behavior, one can devise descriptive, prescriptive and predictive performance along various metrics and from there, formulate rules for making decisions.
A key aspect of normalizing behavior is the development of a prescriptive schema where forms of knowledge are combined with training, surveillance, monitoring and testing to ensure their adaptation by those within the institution [3].
