RE: [wg-review] Consensus - and broken questions on the polling booth

[Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>]

> From: Harald Alvestrand [mailto:Harald@Alvestrand.no]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 12:56 AM

> A vote is a vote. A consensus is a value judgment.

This is precisely my problem with "consensus". It is a value-judgement. In
other words, it is non-deterministic. There is no definitive connection
between the evidence of consensus and the result. There is only a
correlation.

In small groups, that may well work. It doesn't scale past 100,000 members
though. At that scale, one needs proof and direct causality.
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