Dave Crocker <dhc@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 8/1/2013 10:50 AM, Ralph Droms wrote: > > In particular, the effect of humming versus > >show of hands was pretty obvious. > > The fact that the results were so profoundly different should get our > attention, enough to get us to consider specifying how to measure > consensus. From the data you cited, it appears that raising hands > carries some sort of social onus, at least for some people some times, > that raising hands does not. Unless I missed something, it was not clear how much of the effect was due to hands vs. hum, and how much of it was due to people being asked a second time after they'd already seen (err, heard) the sense of the room when it was asked just previously. -- Cos