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'''Assessment''' describes the general structure of the products of risk or impact assessments.
'''Assessment''' describes the general structure of the products of risk or impact assessments.


*A risk assessment product is a description of a certain piece of reality
*A risk assessment product is a description of a certain piece of reality {{disclink|Rename risk assessment}}
*The descriptions are produced according to the use [[Purpose and properties of good assessments|purposes]] of the product
*The descriptions are produced according to the use [[Purpose and properties of good assessments|purposes]] of the product
*The risk assessment product is a description of all the relevant phenomena in relation to the chosen endpoints and their relations as a causal network
*The risk assessment product is a description of all the relevant phenomena in relation to the chosen endpoints and their relations as a causal network
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{{The attributes of an assessment product}}
{{The attributes of an assessment product}}
{{disclink|Add causal diagram to the attributes of an assessment}}

Revision as of 09:14, 29 March 2008

<accesscontrol>members of projects,,Workshop2008,,beneris,,Erac,,Heimtsa,,Hiwate,,Intarese</accesscontrol> Assessment describes the general structure of the products of risk or impact assessments.

  • A risk assessment product is a description of a certain piece of reality D↷
  • The descriptions are produced according to the use purposes of the product
  • The risk assessment product is a description of all the relevant phenomena in relation to the chosen endpoints and their relations as a causal network
  • The risk assessment product combines value judgements with the descriptions of physical phenomena
  • The basic building block of the causal description is a variable, i.e. everything is described as variables.
  • All variables in a causal network description must be causally related to the endpoints of the assessment.


<accesscontrol>members of projects,,Workshop2008,,beneris,,Erac,,Heimtsa,,Hiwate,,Intarese</accesscontrol> Assessment describes the general structure of the products of risk or impact assessments.

  • A risk assessment product is a description of a certain piece of reality D↷
  • The descriptions are produced according to the use purposes of the product
  • The risk assessment product is a description of all the relevant phenomena in relation to the chosen endpoints and their relations as a causal network
  • The risk assessment product combines value judgements with the descriptions of physical phenomena
  • The basic building block of the causal description is a variable, i.e. everything is described as variables.
  • All variables in a causal network description must be causally related to the endpoints of the assessment.


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