^^ This is (some of) what we’re working on…
This diagram follows my previous note ‘The starting point’. It deals with the nature of the external projection of a benefit. In other words, is there a real effect for all benefits? I mean by ‘real’ here something that can be estimated or measured.
When we elicit benefits associated with an artefact from a group of stakeholders, we are likely to get a reasonably large number of what they think benefits are. The question then is; shall we take for granted all their thought and advance them for a quantification process?
There is an element of uncertainty in this context with regards to what make a thought being considered as a benefit. This uncertainty need to be utilised as a screening criterion ageist which the elicited benefits should be filtered. To explain, some benefits may have psychological (e.g. satisfaction), biological (e.g. effect on clinical outcomes) or physical impacts (e.g. behaviour) or any combination of these. Benefits with such impacts deserve more attention.
