The process is intellectually rigorous, these people say, and there is homework.
Clinical requirements are much more rigorous for people pursuing psychology and psychiatry.
"No one would dream of 'scaling up' the use of a new pharmaceutical in the U.S. without rigorous evidence comparing people who got the medicine to people who did not," said Michael Clemens, a research fellow at the Center for Global Development.
Rigorous theology helps people avoid mindless conformity.
"We believe," Stephen P. Harbeck, the president of SIPC, told me this week, "that rigorous pursuit of people responsible for brokerage firm failures sends a very important message".
It is only noteworthy in this case because the author is Wood, a critic famously rigorous about other people's novels.
In addition to more rigorous screening of people and companies, the commission has proposed that if a company is found unfit, it can operate only if it hires a monitor from a list of people named by the commission.
But Canada is taking steps to tighten immigration and refugee policies, including more rigorous screening of people who claim refugee status and stepped up detentions and deportations of claimants suspected of being security risks.
Anyone who sets great store by the choices of Booker prize panels should remember this: the process consists of nothing more rigorous than five people sitting in a room together for a few hours, swapping personal opinions.
"The committee that handles foreign film nominations actually do have a more rigorous process, where people have to check in for the screenings at the Academy and verify that they've seen them all before they're allowed to vote," says Crudo.
