The phrase "assumed consensus" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a general agreement that is taken for granted or accepted without explicit confirmation among a group.
Example: "The team moved forward with the project based on the assumed consensus that everyone was in favor of the proposed changes."
Alternatives: "presumed agreement" or "implied consensus".
Whatever their differences, both right and left seem locked into an assumed consensus about the need for (indiscriminate) economic growth.
Like Park, I have seen how quickly a presumed collegiality can turn into a mocking, almost threatening, tone whenever I stray from the assumed consensus that we all hate "worse racists," Fox News, and gun nuts.
In discussing curriculum, the fact of testing is less important than what's being tested; a challenge is posed to an all-too-often unexamined or assumed consensus about the particular fund of knowledge or set of skills that are being evaluated.
There's something marvellously sly about the way he assumes consensus around his off-kilter take on the world.
But what's really happening is that the authority of the press to assume consensus, define deviance and set the terms for legitimate debate is weaker when people can connect horizontally around and about the news.
We assumed this consensus might hide discrepancies between some scientific concepts and the ways farmers use methods and tools.
Yet, after all the praise slathered over a certain cartoonist known for depicting Aboriginal men as thick-lipped, low-browed alcoholics, one might have assumed a consensus on the right about the validity of controversial opinions.
Estimates of the time of divergence and hybridization assumed the consensus mutation rate of 2×10−9 per nucleotide per year for protein coding genes [11], [72], [73].
We also assumed, by consensus, that a difference in continuation rates of 15% between etanercept and adalimumab was clinically important and would be sufficient for clinicians to choose one agent over another.
Even assuming a consensus on what is acceptable, as defined by statements and conventions such as the UN Declaration on Human Rights, the trouble is that they create a framework, setting limits on what is acceptable, but leaving a huge area undefined.
Assuming that consensus sequences represent full-length and active copies of the LTRr families [21], the level of divergence estimated between each copy and its family consensus provides an estimate of the age of insertion.
