Consensus

Consensus usually refers to general agreement among a group of people or community. It may also refer to:

Sociology

 * Consensus decision-making, the process of making decisions using consensus.
 * Rough consensus, a term used in consensus decision-making to indicate the "sense of the group" concerning a matter under consideration.
 * 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.