Re: Re[2]: acceptance criteria for new success criteria

Jason,
And I think that is the exact sort of situation where the decision policy comes into play because there is an increased chance of difficult debate in those situations.
Thanks,
AWK

Andrew Kirkpatrick
Group Product Manager, Standards and Accessibility
Adobe

akirkpat@adobe.com
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From: "White, Jason J" <jjwhite@ets.org<mailto:jjwhite@ets.org>>
Date: Thursday, June 2, 2016 at 15:34
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Subject: RE: Re[2]: acceptance criteria for new success criteria



From: Andrew Kirkpatrick [mailto:akirkpat@adobe.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 2, 2016 3:29 PM

I think that we are but in slightly different ways. I agree that we want to have a "high degree of confidence that most experts would agree” but object to the idea of placing a specific, and impossible to measure, numerical metric on that.  I agree that we don’t want to say “ALL experts agree” (result of that would likely be no new SC) but ultimately the decision policy is going to dictate how we ultimately decide whether the criteria are met.

I’m not concerned about numerical metrics either, but strongly support the principle. I would also maintain that the requirement is still satisfied if there exist a small number of unusual cases (rarely seen in practice) on which informed evaluators would tend to disagree. In other words, the existence of “hard cases” is compatible with presumed agreement by most informed evaluators in respect of most (ordinary) cases.


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