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Dimension: Substantiveness

Represent complexity

Ability for final outputs to be nuanced, concrete, decisive, and comprehensive.

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Process organizers
Process organizers create workflows that optimize for desired outcomes, properties such as concreteness and group agreement can be in tension.

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Related Goals and Research Questions

Goal: Recommendations that are effectively stress tested to be as robust as possible.

What are the best methods for providing impartial robustness checking and critical friend support for output refinement?

Political Science Public Policy & Law
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How can we ensure that outputs go beyond abstract, high-level principles to specific, actionable proposals?

Public Policy & Law Communication & Media
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Goal: Agreement is found on concrete proposals and not empty platitudes.

How can we measure the concreteness of statements and recommendations?

Communication & Media Psychology
Related Capability: Represent complexity

How to balance finding common ground within a limited time, while minimally sacrificing depth of final outputs?

Political Science Communication & Media
Related Capability: Represent complexity

Goal: Outputs that address the complexity and nuance of the issue.

How to balance finding common ground within a limited time, while minimally sacrificing depth of final outputs?

Political Science Communication & Media
Related Capability: Represent complexity

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