SEApr 27, 2014
Towards Assessing Necessary Competence
arXiv:1404.6803v1
Originality Synthesis-oriented
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This addresses a regulatory policy issue for policymakers, but it is incremental as it focuses on assessing existing claims rather than introducing new methods.
The paper tackles the problem of comparing competence demands between non-prescriptive and prescriptive regulatory approaches, proposing a series of studies and experiments to provide empirical evidence on this claim.
We sketch a series of studies and experiments designed to provide empirical evidence about the truth or falsity of claims that non-prescriptive approaches to standards demand greater competence from regulators than prescriptive approaches require.