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| This is a manuscript about the information structure of Open Assessment.
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| '''Information structure of open assessment
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| Jouni T. Tuomisto<sup>1</sup>, Mikko Pohjola<sup>1</sup>, Alexandra Kuhn<sup>2</sup>
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| <sup>1</sup>National Public Health Institute, P.O.Box 95, FI-70701 Kuopio, Finland
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| <sup>2</sup>IER, Universitaet Stuttgart, Hessbruehlstr. 49 a, 70565 Stuttgart, Germany
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| == Abstract ==
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| === Background ===
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| === Methods ===
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| === Results ===
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| === Conclusions ===
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| == Background ==
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| Many future environmental health problems are global, cross administrative boundaries, and are caused by everyday activities of billions of people. Urban air pollution or climate change typical problems of this kind. The traditional risk assessment procedures, developed for single-chemical, single decision-maker, pre-market decisions do not perform well with the new challenges. There is an urgent need to develop new assessment methods that could deal with the new fuzzy but severe problems.
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| A major need is for a systematic approach that is not limited to any particular kind of situation (such as chemical marketing), and is specifically designed to offer guidance for decision-making. Our main interest is in societal decision-making related to environmental health, but the approach should cover wider domains. In addition, the approach should be flexible enough to subsume current methods
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| In our previous paper, we identified three main properties that the new assessment method should fulfil <ref>Pohjola and Tuomisto: Purpose determines the structure of open assessment #ONKO SE TÄMÄ?</ref>. These are 1) openness of the assessment work, the assessment report, and all details of premises, modelling, and results leading to the report; 2) openness of all data and all methods used for scientific criticism, and 3) reusability of the parts of one assessment in other assessments.
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| In this study, we developed an information structure that fulfils all the three criteria
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| [[Image:Context Process and product.PNG]] | |
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| * [[Open assessment]]
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| == Methods ==
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| The work is based on research questions. The current answers to these questions should be seen as hypotheses that will be tested against observations and practical experience as the work goes on. The research questions are presented in the Results section together with the current answer.
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| The scientific methods that have been used as the foundation of this work are briefly presented here.
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| * [[PSSP]]
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| * [[Bayesian network]], causality
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| * [[Bayes' theorem]]
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| * [[Falsification]], bayesian updating
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| * [[Decision theory]]
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| * [[pyrkilo]]
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| * [[open assessment]]
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| * [[:en:Pragma-dialectics|argumentation theory]]
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| Three requirements were applied throughout the method development:
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| * possibility to open participation at any point in the assessment work
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| * falsifiability (testable against observations)
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| * reusable objects
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| == Results ==
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| ===Universal products===
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| {{{{ns:0}}:Universal products}}
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| ===Structure of an attribute===
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| {{{{ns:0}}:Attribute}}
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| ===Structure of an assessment product===
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| {{{{ns:0}}:Assessment}}
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| ===Structure of a variable===
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| {{{{ns:0}}:Variable}}
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| ===Structure of a discussion ===
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| {{{{ns:0}}:Discussion}}
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| * parts of discussion (hierarchy does NOT show temporal issues but targets of arguments)
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| * (parts of argument?)
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| ===Structure of a method===
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| {{{{ns:0}}:Method}}
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| * [[Model]], [[Tool]] (what is the difference between the two?)
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| ===Structure of a class===
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| {{{{ns:0}}:Class}}
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| ===Objects in different abstraction levels===
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| * Abstraction level (not written down?)
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| ===Performance in the information structure===
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| * Performance, including uncertainty [[Evaluating assessment performance]], [[Assessing uncertainty]], [[Quality assurance and quality control]], [[Purpose and properties of good assessments]]
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| == Conclusions ==
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| == Competing interests ==
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| == Authors' contributions ==
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| == Acknowledgements ==
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| == References ==
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| <references/>
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| == Figures ==
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| [[Image:Context Process and product.PNG]]
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| [[image:Variable definition.PNG]]
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| == Tables ==
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| == Additional files ==
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