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[Seamus McInerney]

Hi Penny,
When you say "people were looking around and making assessments as to where their dots would have the most weight". Do you mean it in terms of looking good to others or that they were increasing the chances of getting something done.

If they were trying to ensure that their favourite was tackled first, is this not an expression of passion for the task? As in what do I have to do to make this happen?

Shay

>OSLIST <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU> wrote:

>
> hi joelle,
>
> i have a question about convergence in os using these dots; do context and
> situation have any bearing on how people vote using this method? or put
> another way...can there be a peer pressure factor? the reason i'm asking is
> because i was in a meeting this week -- not os -- where we used sticky dots
> to converge on a large number of strategic goals the group had brainstormed
> and felt were important. toward the end of the stickydot-placing-frenzy, it
> seemed to me that people were looking around and making assessments as to
> where their dots would have the most weight. it seemed to lose purity at
> that point. the process became more political for sure.
>
> any thoughts? Penny
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Joelle Lyons Everett <JLEShelton at aol.com>
> To: <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 8:51 PM
> Subject: Re: convergence with "stickie dots"
>
>
> > Lisa--
> >
> > This is a question I have wondered about also--but I am not a
> mathematician.
> >
> > One phenomenon that I have observed with almost any method of convergence
> is
> > that a handful of ideas generally come to the top.  Don't know whether
> this
> > is a mathematical phenomenon or a reflection of underlying agreement in
> the
> > group, which may have been invisible up to this point.  Seems like it
> might
> > be related to the fact that the same conversation often goes on in several
> > breakout sessions, regardless of the posted session topic.
> >
> > There are a lot of things in group dynamics which I can observe but not
> > explain. And I hope someone has a mathematical formula for deciding how
> many
> > dots to give out.
> >
> > Joelle
> >
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