The aim is to elicit experts' views and encourage converging opinion on uncertain or contentious issues.
The second and subsequent questionnaires are more specific and aim to converge opinions and to reach consensus.
In the Integration Age, the ability to converge diverse opinions to create innovation will take courage, but can also lead to the greatest gains in world history.
"Blacks," the authors write, "while more likely than whites to support racially-targeted government aid, are converging toward the opinion of whites" on issues like the relationship between luck, hard work and economic reward.
In our previous study [11], we found that the direction of opinion flow impacts how fast opinions converge.
In this opinion paper, we explain how we reached our opinion that converging genomics and materiomics into a new field would enable a significant acceleration of the development of new and improved medical devices.
We would like to verify that starting from an initial opinion values x 0), whether or not all opinions converges to a single value, that is lim t → ∞x i (t) = x∗ for i = 1, 2, …, N. Let us define diameter d of the opinions as d x = max 1 ≤ i, j ≤ N x i − x j, (4).
The expert opinions converged for all Delphi projections.
This should be of interest both for Switzerland and other countries facing the challenge of improving care for chronic diseases, especially since opinions converged in several ways.
Owing to the predefined areas of importance for investigation informing the topic guide, all themes were discussed by all stakeholder groups but the extent to which their opinions converged differed between groups and across themes.
