Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Delphi Method [was Consensus, Majority vote, blocks

[R Philip Dowds (rpdowds]

That's interesting: You seem to be looking a version of the Method even more 
advanced than the one I know.  The model here seems to be that one group of 
experts submits written opinions (anonymously?), and a second group of expert 
summarizers integrates these opinions into some sort of conceptual framework, 
which informs the next round.  This might work — but probably not for most 
cohousing communities.

In any event, I think my main point was that the group itself needs to do the 
work of categorizing; this is discussed at length in some group process texts.  
Making sense  (and consensus) of what 20 coho members just said to each other 
is not a task that can be outsourced. 

R Philip Dowds AIA
Cornerstone Cohousing
175 Harvey Street, Unit 5
Cambridge, MA 02140
617.354.6094

On Sep 30, 2011, at 1:59 PM, Kay Argyle wrote:

> 
> "Our participatory groups cannot and will not (or should not) converge to
> the idiosyncratic interpretation of a single summarizer."
> 
>> From the description I read, I believe the military version uses a panel to
> provide feedback, not a single summarizer. While panel members will still
> have idiosyncratic interpretations, there will be a greater tendency for the
> biases to cancel each other out.
> 
> Kay
> 
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