In both these cases, ordinary people used technologies of connection to help them steer their own affairs, not merely managing complex domains to a minimal threshold of competence, but outperforming the official bodies formally entrusted with their stewardship.
I was an Enrolled Agent (EA) before becoming a CPA and believe that a streamlined, voluntary program, for otherwise uncredentialed tax preparers, to assure their clients of, at least, a basic threshold of competence, wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing if it had Congressional approval.
The test was simple and designed to explore a lower threshold for competence in recognition and management, based on the experiences of the authors.
All facilitator pairs were considered to have adhered to the manual ('mostly' or 'fully') when delivering the intervention and all scored above the threshold for competence in pacing, feedback, participant engagement and therapeutic relationship.
And a fear of failure that develops in children from the realization that they will never live up to those out-of-reach thresholds of competence.
Since it is not acceptable, as a matter of policy, not to grant people drivers' licences because of our inability to determine thresholds of competence with precision, the law establishes a line that is to some degree arbitrary.
This debate has a potential impact on practice in assisted suicide - in a survey of US forensic psychiatrists, those with ethical objections to assisted suicide recommended higher thresholds for competence and a more extensive review of the decision [ 20].
Thresholds for competence are influenced by how much risk is incurred by the decision being made, with high risk decisions requiring 'greater' capacity or margin for error [ 17] as established in English Law by Lord Donaldson in the case of re T (Adult: Refusal of treatment) [ 18].
A consequence of quasispecies is the existence of an error threshold for selective competence.
It would be more honest and efficient to set a threshold of academic competence and then use a lottery to select students from the qualified pool.
