Open assessor

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Open assessor is a person who works in a mass collaboration project about an open assessment in aim to improve societal decision-making about the topic of the assessment. Generally, open assessors think that a major hindrance to good decision-making is the lack of truthful information, specifically designed to the particular needs of that decision process, in an easily accessible form. In addition, they realise that decision-making processes are distracted by strong forces that are irrelevant or harmful to the achievement of the actual societal objectives. These forces are those that create the difference between policy-making and politics. Open assessors see the deleterious impact of these forces on the actual decisions made, and they fight the forces by promoting explicit expression of values, combined with truthful descriptions of reality. Open assessors think that this work benefits any honest political movement, and therefore the Open Assessors' Network is independent of and open to all political movements that accept the rules of open assessment.

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An ideal day for an open assessor

1. Identify a problem. (Read newspapers!)
2. Explore different features and properties of the problem. (Discuss! Keep the problem in mind while doing other things!)
3. Identify the actual essence of the problem. (Draw a graph!)
4. Check for consistence. (Re-draw and re-identify!)
5. When you get stuck, stop drawing but keep the major inconsistency in mind. (Go for a walk!)
6. Describe the essence using exact terms (objects) and their relationships using mathematics. (Ask for help!)
7. Put preliminary values into your equations and find an order-of-magnitude solution. (Often, even two or three orders of magnitude is good enough.)
8. Try and understand what your results actually mean.
9. Make a preliminary conclusion.
10. Write your work to Opasnet, if you haven't done it already.
11. Make links to related work in Opasnet and elsewhere.
12. Tell about your work to those who might be interested.

• Don't be discouraged if this process takes longer than a day.
• You may need to do several iterations before you reach step 9.
• Remember that good questions with poor answers are much more important than satisfactory questions with precise answers.
• Be bold in writing things to Opasnet already at step 2.
• If you think your problem is important enough, try to get other assessors involved in your problem-solving. The sooner you put your thinking available and the sooner other people get involved, the better for your work.

See also

• Open assessment
• Opasnet
• Open Assessors' Network
• Open assessment method