Consensus cascade/Definition

From Citizendium
Jump to navigation Jump to search
This article is a stub and thus not approved.
 Main Article
 Discussion
Related Articles  [?]
Bibliography  [?]
External Links  [?]
Citable Version  [?]
 
https://en.citizendium.org/wiki/index.php?title=Consensus_cascade/Definition&printable=yes
A definition or brief description of Consensus cascade.

The observed phenomena whereby one person expresses an opinion, a second person picks up that opinion based on the first person's credibility, and the opinion gathers the weight of consensus without any necessary basis in fact.

Retrieved from "https://citizendium.org/wiki/index.php?title=Consensus_cascade/Definition&oldid=479772"