Public comment period · §3
Draft conflicts-of-interest policy — disposition
The disposition of every submission and the amendments that resulted.
§3Disposition and amendments
§3.1Disposition table
Table 1. Every submission with its disposition. Each row links to the submission in full.
| Reference | Respondent | Point raised | Disposition |
|---|---|---|---|
| DRAFT-CONFLICTS-PO/001 | Professor Bartolomeu Nkosi-Lindegaard | Independence is asserted and the mechanism securing it is not described | Accepted |
| DRAFT-CONFLICTS-PO/002 | Dr Vasilisa Sandringham-Adu | What the site collects about a reader is not stated in terms a reader can check | Accepted |
| DRAFT-CONFLICTS-PO/003 | Dr Georgiana Mountstephen | Whether external reviewers are paid is not stated | Accepted |
| DRAFT-CONFLICTS-PO/004 | Ivo Mountstephen | The search date is not on the face of the document | Accepted |
| DRAFT-CONFLICTS-PO/005 | Dr Vasilisa Immelmann | There is no route to challenge a disposition | Accepted |
| DRAFT-CONFLICTS-PO/006 | Dr Ivo Quintanilha | Absence of evidence is presented in a form a reader will take as negative evidence | Accepted |
| DRAFT-CONFLICTS-PO/007 | Georgiana Zimmerthal | The materiality threshold for a declarable holding is set too high | Accepted in part |
| DRAFT-CONFLICTS-PO/008 | Ignatius Erlingsson | A four-week window is too short for a respondent without institutional support | Accepted in part |
| DRAFT-CONFLICTS-PO/009 | Dr Rurik Haverkamp-Diallo | Funding should not be accepted from any party the Institute assesses | Accepted in part |
| DRAFT-CONFLICTS-PO/010 | Dr Wojciech Kaltenbach-Mensah | Where a document is generated rather than authored, the reader should be told | Accepted |
| DRAFT-CONFLICTS-PO/011 | Vittoria Ylönen | No term limit applies to membership of the assessment committee | Accepted |
| DRAFT-CONFLICTS-PO/012 | Stellan Cholmondeley-Ade | A reader who acted on a document is not told when it is corrected | Accepted |
| 12 submissions in total. | |||
§3.2Summary by disposition
Table 2. Counts by disposition, with the meaning of each.
| Disposition | Count | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Accepted | 9 | The submission is accepted and the draft is amended as proposed. The amendment is recorded in the amendment log of the document it changed and is traceable to the numbered submission. |
| Accepted in part | 3 | Part of the submission is accepted and part is not. The secretariat response states which part is which and on what ground the remainder was declined. |
| Noted, no amendment | 0 | The submission raises a point the Institute accepts but that does not require a change to the draft, most often because the draft already states it elsewhere. The location is given in the response. |
| Not accepted | 0 | The submission is not accepted. The secretariat response gives the reason. A submission that is not accepted remains published in full; the Institute does not remove a submission because it disagrees with it. |
§3.3Resulting amendments
- Independence is asserted and the mechanism securing it is not described — arising from DRAFT-CONFLICTS-PO/001. The governance document now describes the separation in operational terms: who accepts funding, who makes assessments, that the two sets do not overlap, and that assessment staff are not informed of placement decisions before publication.
- What the site collects about a reader is not stated in terms a reader can check — arising from DRAFT-CONFLICTS-PO/002. The statement now enumerates what is collected and what is not, and is written so that a reader can verify it from the page source, which is the only form of the statement that can be checked without trusting the Institute.
- Whether external reviewers are paid is not stated — arising from DRAFT-CONFLICTS-PO/003. The policy now states whether external review is remunerated, records any payment made in respect of a document in that document's front matter, and treats a payment received from the Institute as a declarable interest in the same way as any other.
- The search date is not on the face of the document — arising from DRAFT-CONFLICTS-PO/004. The search date is now printed adjacent to every certainty rating and is carried in the document metadata, so that the interval between the search and the reading is visible without reference to the methods section.
- There is no route to challenge a disposition — arising from DRAFT-CONFLICTS-PO/005. A disposition may now be referred for review to a member of the assessment committee who did not author the response, once per submission, with the referral and its outcome published alongside the original disposition whether or not it changes.
- Absence of evidence is presented in a form a reader will take as negative evidence — arising from DRAFT-CONFLICTS-PO/006. A standing formulation has been adopted and is applied wherever an evidence gap is recorded, distinguishing an outcome assessed and not demonstrated from an outcome not assessed. The formulation is identical at every occurrence so that it can be recognised at…
- The materiality threshold for a declarable holding is set too high — arising from DRAFT-CONFLICTS-PO/007. The materiality threshold is lowered and is now expressed as a proportion of the declarer's holdings as well as an absolute figure, so that a holding material to the person is declarable whether or not it is large in absolute terms.
- A four-week window is too short for a respondent without institutional support — arising from DRAFT-CONFLICTS-PO/008. The minimum window is now six weeks for a document of general application and four for a document-specific draft. A respondent who asks for more time before a window closes is given it, and that is now stated in the policy.
- Funding should not be accepted from any party the Institute assesses — arising from DRAFT-CONFLICTS-PO/009. The policy now prohibits funding from an assessed party for any activity bearing on that party's assessment, requires that any other relationship be published on the funding page and on every page it could bear on, and records the sums involved rather than…
- Where a document is generated rather than authored, the reader should be told — arising from DRAFT-CONFLICTS-PO/010. Every generated record now carries a notice stating that its prose frame is templated and that its included studies, summary of findings and certainty rating are computed from the underlying records, so that the reader can see which parts were authored and…
- No term limit applies to membership of the assessment committee — arising from DRAFT-CONFLICTS-PO/011. Members are appointed for a four-year term renewable once. Appointment and expiry dates are published in the register of members.
- A reader who acted on a document is not told when it is corrected — arising from DRAFT-CONFLICTS-PO/012. A corrected passage now carries an inline notice for twelve months from the date of correction, naming the log entry, in addition to the entry itself.
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