Consensus Topics

• consensus decision making
• achieving consensus
• standard deviations
• collective intelligence
• initial step
• stakeholders
• synthesis
• reliability
• relationships
• decisions
• sacrifice

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Consensus, Consensus

There is considerable debate and research into both collective intelligence and consensus decision-making.

If this is done in a purely mechanical way it can result in simple trading—we'll sacrifice this if you'll sacrifice that. Genuine consensus typically requires more focus on developing the relationships among stakeholders, so that they work together to achieve agreements based on willing consent.

We would then say that the initial step in a consensus process would be the written or spoken synthesis that represents the range of opinions within perhaps three standard deviations of the mean opinion.

It can also lead to a few dominant individuals making all decisions. Finally, consensus decision-making may fail in a situation where there simply is no agreement possible, and interests are irreconcilable.

Achieving consensus is a challenging problem in distributed systems, particularly as the number of nodes grows or the reliability of links between nodes decreases.

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