Comparison of decision-making methods - an article by Ted Rau



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Decision-making methods help groups make decisions. There are different decision-making methods – but none of them fell from the sky …

In a culture where majority vote is used to make decisions, the orange group doesn’t even have to consider the input from the purple group. They already know they won’t have to listen and will get “their” way anyway …

There are basically five decision-making methods that exist in our typical Western culture …

About Majority vote decision-making:

And even after the election, the game continues. <There is no need to consider the minority because concessions to the minority put us at risk of losing votes for re-election. What was a majority once needs to remain a majority. Therefore, we have to oppress the other side to keep winning. Since there’s only winning and losing, we don’t really have a choice.>


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