I go back and ask the investors and the board and everyone's consensus, the resounding verdict, has been that our decisions were made carefully and cautiously.
After several stabs at identifying the standard of taste, Hume identifies it as the consensus or "joint verdict" of "true critics" (SOT, 278 79).
"After much discussion," the note said, "we are unable to reach a consensus on any individual count verdict".
In our test of the new method, it was not our purpose to seek consensus but to identify a summary verdict per domain and thus to classify MVHT overall for each of six RCTs.
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In the final round, a majority positive verdict (91.3% (21/23)) agreed with the consensus statement: Epidural pain control should be used for specific types of operation (eg, open abdominal surgery) or for selected patients.
There was a majority positive verdict (90.5% (19/21)) on the following consensus statement: CPEX should be used selectively for high-risk patients and a multidisciplinary approach should decide which patients would benefit from this testing.
They also noted that the group discussion evolved naturally into a whole-jury consensus, and jurors felt they contributed more to the verdict.
A better approach for any chief executive is to assume that, in presidential politics, as in retailing, the customer is always right, and that the electorate's verdict will be consonant with history's consensus.
