
Conclusion to Part Two: The Singular Aspects
of the Assessment Factory
When compared with classic theories of assessment and control, the
observation of the human factors experts at work on three cases representative
of their activity, produced novel findings.
Indeed, it is clear that the human factors assessment does not fit any of the
scientific assessment models in the literature. Although the canonical model was
quickly abandoned, neither do our data indicate the characteristics of the
procedural model despite what the inventory of the many procedures in the
IRSN assessment could have suggested. Only the adversarial procedure was
embodied ...