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Is higher education likely to make you better, to improve your capacity to make sound moral as well as technical judgements, in other words to take part in what Amartya Sen calls "public reasoning"?
Regulatory thresholds and criteria also involve technical judgements, not just in terms of the numerical value, but in the way that numerical value is measured or expressed.
This example simply illustrates that many technical judgements can also be involved in the setting of a threshold or criterion, and in the evaluation of an in silico model.
The MATA approach supports more informed decision-making because it exposes important trade-offs among competing management objectives (requiring value-based choices), helps guide and structure necessary technical judgements, explicitly represents uncertainty (i.e., not just expected outcomes but risk profiles around outcomes) and addresses temporal trade-offs.
The allocation of resources, whether within health or other sectors, is not merely based on technical issues but results from a complex interplay of political, ethical and technical judgements.
When surgeons ignore nurses' requests to put contaminated drapes in the allocated bins and instead throw them on the floor, they are not simply making technical judgements about infection risk; they are also making normative judgements about what is acceptable behaviour.
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Financial imperatives of management trumped good technical judgement.
Licensing is now carried out on a Europe wide basis but that is more of a technical judgement of efficacy and safety.
In this context, the function of safety reviews are understood as expert judgements on proposals for design modifications1 and redesign of technical systems (i.e. commercial nuclear reactors), supported by formalised safety review processes.
Before naming an odor, probands had to decide whether it matched the 7 attributes pleasant (hedonic judgement), sweet & hot (gustatory judgement), technical, natural, edible and dangerous (semantic judgement) (forced choice: 'yes' or 'no' answer; odor interpretation; same set of odors as for naming).
33 Yet an extensive literature discusses issues relating to measurement of inequalities in health, 55 57 which necessitates technical and normative judgements in the choice of metrics.
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