Three items did not significantly improve over a chance prediction, these were: the two self-harm items (S2 Seriousness of Self-Harm; and S4 – Immediacy of Self-Harm Risk); and the item measuring previous institutional behaviour (S10).
From this, it seems that Mr Diamond had not yet grasped the seriousness of the harm done by dishonest traders during his time as head of Barclays Capital.
However, it is also possible that the media attention and the seriousness of the harm caused may have reduced the use in poisoning.
As a general ethical rule of thumb, the likelihood and seriousness of possible harms, including psychological and social harms, should weigh up against the likelihood and magnitude of the potential (medical) benefits of testing.
Re-analysing the differences between levels of security for a nine item scale omitting the two items for seriousness of self harming history and immediacy of self-harm made no significant difference to any of these results.
In response the principle advocates that actions ought to be taken to avoid or reduce the harm, and that these actions need to be proportionate to the seriousness of the potential harm.
But while the plurality today -- Justice O'Connor with Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Justices Anthony M. Kennedy and Stephen G. Breyer -- adopted that approach, Justice Souter said he had since concluded that a city should have to provide evidence both of "the seriousness of the threatened harm" and "the efficacy of its chosen remedy".
Actions should be chosen that are proportional to the seriousness of the potential harm, with consideration of their positive and negative consequences, and with an assessment of the moral implications of both action and inaction.
Only the seriousness of the injury separates an assault from an assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
As gonad shielding is applied to limit hereditary effects, the detriment adjusted risk for heritable disease was estimated (the 'detriment adjusted risk' takes the various potential, negative consequences of the exposure into account, weighting for the seriousness of the corresponding harms; for the official definition see ICRP 103 [32]).
The seriousness of the injury wasn't known Saturday. .
