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Consensus vs Polling - What's the difference?

consensus | polling |

As nouns the difference between consensus and polling

is that consensus is a process of decision-making that seeks widespread agreement among group members while polling is the action of taking a poll.

As a verb polling is

present participle of lang=en.

consensus

English

(wikipedia consensus)

Noun

(es)
  • A process of that seeks widespread agreement among group members.
  • agreement among the members of a given group or community, each of which exercises some discretion in decision-making and follow-up action.
  • Average projected value, as in the finance term consensus forecast.

    • Related terms

    * consensual * consent

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    polling

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

  • The action of taking a poll.
  • (computing) A technique that continually interrogates a peripheral device to see if it has data to transfer.