I’m a big fan! Any thoughs on how to incorporate different sorts of reflective data, e.g. different measures of how people think mediation “should” go?
The authors focus on measuring consensus and whether the process toward consensus was fair, and come up with their measures accordingly. This is because, as they see it, “finding common ground is a precursor to collective action.”
Some other possible goals (just spitballing):
Shrinking the perception gap, or how well people can predict the opinions of people they disagree with (weaker forms of ITT?). There’s some research showing that this gap GROWS when people interact with social media, and you might be able to engineer and measure a reversal of that trend.
Identifying cruxes and double cruxes with mediation.
Finding latent coalitions. If a discussion is dominated by a primary axis of disagreement, other axes of disagreement will be occluded (around which a majority coalition could be formed). Finding these other axes is a bit of what we’re trying to do here.
Moving from abstract disagreement to concrete (empirical?) disagreements.
I’m a big fan! Any thoughs on how to incorporate different sorts of reflective data, e.g. different measures of how people think mediation “should” go?
The authors focus on measuring consensus and whether the process toward consensus was fair, and come up with their measures accordingly. This is because, as they see it, “finding common ground is a precursor to collective action.”
Some other possible goals (just spitballing):
Shrinking the perception gap, or how well people can predict the opinions of people they disagree with (weaker forms of ITT?). There’s some research showing that this gap GROWS when people interact with social media, and you might be able to engineer and measure a reversal of that trend.
Identifying cruxes and double cruxes with mediation.
Finding latent coalitions. If a discussion is dominated by a primary axis of disagreement, other axes of disagreement will be occluded (around which a majority coalition could be formed). Finding these other axes is a bit of what we’re trying to do here.
Moving from abstract disagreement to concrete (empirical?) disagreements.