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Dimension: Informedness

Evaluate claims

Ability for participants to evaluate claims made during the process by any actor or source.

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Citizens' assembly organizers
Citizens’ assemblies organizers do not currently systematically evaluate claims. Participants are often provided with critical thinking training and the ability to ask questions of experts, stakeholders and commissioning authorities. A common practice is to take questions from participants at the end of a meeting and provide answers before the next meeting.
Process organizers
Process organisers seek to provide diverse information sources and support participant reasoning with training for careful prompting.

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Related Goals and Research Questions

Goal: Claims and inputs provided throughout the deliberative processes that can be evaluated upon request.

How to evaluate the degree of confidence in factual claims? How to convey this to participants or among participants?

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