RE: [wg-review] The Number 1 Problem

[Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>]

> From: ERIC@HI-TEK.COM [mailto:ERIC@HI-TEK.COM]
> Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 12:01 PM
> 
> I would ask that we not overlook the value of the census, 
> which is akin to
> majority rule, as a method of validating a position and 
> therefore facilitating
> compromise.
> Of course this would be learned if training is implemented.
> Sincerely

I most thouroughly disagree that consensus is any way near "majority rule",
for stricter definitions of "majority rule".

In order to know if one has a majority, one counts votes, ayes, nays, etc.
Consensus doesn't do anything near that explicit. One can have consensus
with a minority opinion, absent majority disent. The two are NOT equivalent.
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