Consensusfoot
Consensusfoot is a quantitative concept used to assess and guide consensus in collaborative decision-making. It describes a metric that combines the degree of agreement within a group and the dispersion of individual positions to yield a single score indicating how strongly a proposal enjoys broad and coherent support. The term blends “consensus” with “footprint,” signaling both agreement and the spread of positions that underlie that agreement.
Mechanism: In a typical application, participants express their stance on a proposal along a multi-point scale
Origin and usage: The concept was proposed in deliberative decision-making research to provide a transparent, numeric
Limitations: As with any metric, consensusfoot may oversimplify complex moral or strategic considerations. It can be
See also: Consensus decision-making, Deliberative democracy, Social choice theory.