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'''Consensus''' usually refers to general agreement among a group of people or community. It may also refer to: {{TOCright}}
==Sociology== * Consensus decision-making, the process of making decisions using consensus. ** Consensus democracy, democracy where consensus decision-making is used to create, amend or repeal legislation. * Consensus-based assessment, the use of consensus to produce methods of evaluating information.
==Religion== * Ijma', consensus or agreement of Muslim scholars/jurists, basically on religious issues.
==Philosophy== * Consensus reality, reality as defined by consensus, particularly popular consensus, rather than or before other (philosophical) criteria. * Consensus theory of truth, truth as determined by consensus rather than or before other criteria.
==Psychology== * False-consensus effect, a tendency to overestimate the extent to which beliefs or opinions match those of others.
==Science and technology== * Scientific consensus * Consensus (computer science), techniques to provide coherence among and between nodes of a distributed computer system or database. * Consensus sequence, the order of nucleotide or amino acid residues most frequently found within a DNA, RNA or protein sequence. * Consensus theorem, an identity in Boolean algebra. ** Consensus or resolvent term, defined in the consensus theorem.
==Professional== * Scientific consensus, the collective opinion, judgment and position of scientists as regards matters of fact, especially with reference to a particular scientific or science-related issue. * Medical consensus, a public statement of what is taken to be the consensus among medical experts as regards an aspect or aspects of medical knowledge.
==Political== * 1992 Consensus, used to refer to the outcome of a meeting held in 1992 between semi-official representatives of the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (ROC).
==Policy== * Copenhagen Consensus, a think tank-like project that uses welfare economics and cost–benefit analysis to recommend priorities and investment in global welfare. * Monterrey Consensus, the outcome of the United Nations International Conference on Financing for Development held in Monterrey, Mexico, in 2002. * Washington Consensus, an informal name for a set of economic policies commonly prescribed by institutions based in Washington D.C. such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank.
==See also== {{canned search|consensus|consensual}} * Consent (disambiguation) * Consensus conference (disambiguation) * {{srt}} * ConsenSys, blockchain company
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