# Consensus

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'''Consensus''' usually refers to general agreement among a group of people  or community. It may also refer to:
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==Sociology==
* [Consensus decision-making](/source/Consensus_decision-making), the process of making decisions using consensus.
** [Consensus democracy](/source/Consensus_democracy), democracy where consensus decision-making is used to create, amend or repeal legislation.
* [Consensus-based assessment](/source/Consensus-based_assessment), the use of consensus to produce methods of evaluating information.

==Religion==
* [Ijma](/source/Ijma)', consensus or agreement of Muslim scholars/jurists, basically on religious issues.

==Philosophy==
* [Consensus reality](/source/Consensus_reality), reality as defined by consensus, particularly popular consensus, rather than or before other (philosophical) criteria.
* [Consensus theory of truth](/source/Consensus_theory_of_truth), truth as determined by consensus rather than or before other criteria.

==Psychology==
* [False-consensus effect](/source/False-consensus_effect), a tendency to overestimate the extent to which beliefs or opinions match those of others.

==Science and technology==
* [Scientific consensus](/source/Scientific_consensus)
* [Consensus (computer science)](/source/Consensus_(computer_science)), techniques to provide coherence among and between nodes of a distributed computer system or database.
* [Consensus sequence](/source/Consensus_sequence), the order of nucleotide or amino acid residues most frequently found within a DNA, RNA or protein sequence.
* [Consensus theorem](/source/Consensus_theorem), an identity in Boolean algebra.
** Consensus or resolvent term, defined in the [consensus theorem](/source/consensus_theorem).

==Professional==
* [Scientific consensus](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Monterrey_Consensus), the outcome of the United Nations International Conference on Financing for Development held in Monterrey, Mexico, in 2002.
* [Washington Consensus](/source/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==
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* [Consent (disambiguation)](/source/Consent_(disambiguation))
* [Consensus conference (disambiguation)](/source/Consensus_conference_(disambiguation))
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* [ConsenSys](/source/ConsenSys), blockchain company

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