Open assessment quiz

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Open assessment quiz is a way to find out, how much you actually know about the open assessment or the pyrkilo method. Some basic knowledge is needed to be able to effectively edit pages. Everyone can still contribute by providing data or information, or commenting any existing content. However, if you do not know anything about the method that is applied in these pages, we recommend that you wrap your contributions inside a comment (the button with a thin blue line, above the edit window). You can also start by using the contribution tool as soon as we get it running.

Select the correct answers for the questions below and send them via email to jouni.tuomisto(at)ktl.fi. You will get your score and right answers as reply.

True or false?

  1. Open assessment is called open because the results are openly available.
  2. All open assessments consist of variables.
  3. The result of a variable is always numerical.
  4. The attributes of a variable are name, scope, data, and result.
  5. Open assessment is the same thing as a risk assessment.
  6. Cause-effect relations form the basic structure of an open assessment.
  7. Assessments and variables are product objects.
  8. Classes are process objects.
  9. Classes are particular kinds of sets, in which all the items share some explicitly defined properties.
  10. NOAEL (no observed adverse effect level) of a particular chemical can be defined as a variable.
  11. NOAEL has a causal relation to the reference dose (RfD) of the chemical.
  12. NOAEL has a causal relation to the health effects of the chemical.
  13. All you need to know to calculate the result of a variable is the information described in the definition attribute of the same variable.
  14. The result cannot be a single number, it is always a distribution.
  15. Health impact assessment and risk assessment are process objects.
  16. A process object does have a result attribute, and the result is always a universal product object.
  17. Any particular piece of reality is always described as a variable.
  18. The clairvoyant test examines whether a scope is clear enough.
  19. If several variables contain the definition of PM2.5, you can create a class from the definition.
  20. When starting an open assessment, the first thing is to define the purpose of the assessment.
  21. Anyone can participate in a properly open assessment.
  22. A variable cannot connect to the data attribute of another variable, but only to the causality attribute.
  23. Causality attribute only contains the list of parent variables. It does not contain data about the causalities; this data belongs to the data attribute.
  24. References is also an attribute.
  25. The scope of a variable in your assessment is called "persistent organic pollutant concentrations in adults in Finland", and someone adds data about DDT into the variable. You are allowed to prevent that because its your assessment.
  26. You are allowed to prevent that because the variable is about dioxin, not DDT.
  27. You are not allowed to prevent that, but you can start a discussion against the addition.
  28. You are likely to win, because you can use the practical argument that such a change into this critical variable would make it incoherent in your assessment, and several other assessments as well.
  29. You must use your real name when making contributions to open assessments.
  30. When an assessment is finished, the assessment and its variables are fixed and no further edits are allowed.