Sentence examples for method of consensus from inspiring English sources

I think the "I know it when I see it" method of consensus is about the best we'll ever do on this subject.

An unwittingly humorous account of the establishment of Rag, a feminist journal at Harvard, reported that the founders "proposed a method of consensus for decision-making and suggested that the positions of facilitator, time keeper and vibes watcher (whose job it was to monitor the tension in the room and notice if people were being silenced) should rotate on a voluntary basis".

We used the Delphi method of consensus development.

Deciding on priorities was achieved by the method of consensus during the NAPHR Seminar in 2003 and the National Conference of STI in Health in 2004 [ 5].

A survey-based method of consensus building, the Delphi technique is based on fundamental principles of purposive sampling of experts in the field of interest, panellist anonymity, iterative questionnaire presentation, and feedback of statistical analysis [ 41, 42, 47- 49].

Using the same method of consensus sequence construction that was used for the 454/Sanger SNP analysis, the coding sequences of A2 and D5 were extracted from their respective consensus sequences using the coding frame predicted by ESTScan [ 26].

But if the American people were to start hearing about this proven method of consensus-building, they would respond enthusiasitically, just like they have in hundreds of pilot programs around the country.

Trustworthiness and credibility [ 28, 30] were achieved by methods of consensus and member-checking.

We used the data from the brain and muscle tissues to perform a permutation test (described in Methods) of consensus module detection.

Formal methods of consensus development are used because several people are less likely to arrive at a wrong decision than a single individual, and a selected group of individuals is more likely to lend some authority to the final decision.

Furthermore, many policies were and still are decided by complex and intransparent methods of consensus-finding in lobbies and the back rooms of EU institutions.