That the group appears to have a mind of its own in examples such as this would then be an artifact of the restricted focus of the example, which said nothing about how a policy of rationality at the collective level is maintained.
Additionally, the restricted focus on more policy related topics (e.g. IPM) is often not highly appreciated and might lead to a sceptic attitude towards government and third parties.
The reason for the restricted focus was the limited time available, and an understanding was reached with the MOH that broader consultations would take place at a later date.
Criticism has also been made of the exclusion of benefits to caregivers, in terms of quality of life, cost, time spent caring or impact on their health, and the restricted focus on utility for the individual recipient of the intervention (Alzheimer's Society 2005; DoH 2005; RCP 2005).
The reasons for the successful development of this local consensus statement include its restricted focus on a particular area of clinical uncertainty, its involvement of a wide range of stakeholders, and the delivery of a concise and practical clinical pathway.
Given its restricted focus on gene and vaccine relationships, this work by its nature was not designed for cross-silo biomedical discovery.
Indeed, Laudan (1997, 315; also see Musgrave 2010) spotted in this approach the risk of a "balkanization" of scientific reasoning, namely, a restricted focus on scattered pieces of experimental inference (but see Mayo 2010 for a defense).
Previous studies have come up with similar statistics, though with smaller numbers of subjects and a more restricted focus.
Second, with a restricted focus on civic integration requirements it arguably makes little sense even to talk of convergence.
On the one hand, our restricted focus limits the possibility of drawing lessons for other EU countries.
