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Aggregate perspectives
Ability to aggregate votes and distill more complex forms of open-ended input into outputs and decisions, in fair and understandable ways, such that participants feel their contributions are meaningfully taken into account (and can ideally see how).
How this is performed now...
- Deliberative Poll organizers In deliberative polling, ‘final’ outcomes are measured by poll.
- Collective dialogue organizers Collective dialogue tools such as Polis use bridging algorithms to cluster inputs, and Remesh uses elicitation inference to help identify bridging statements across a large number of inputs. Some online systems may not surface consensus or bridging, but instead simply log the inputs of various participants.
- Citizens' assembly organizers Citizens’ assemblies organizers utilize small group work, which relies on moderated or self-led documenting and integration of inputs. Ultimately, voting is used to ‘end’ the conversation in place of finding consensus. These decisions are sometimes made using Likert voting and supermajority thresholds.
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