Glossary
Planning (DPE) Facilitation (Pronoia) Analysis (DAE)
Abductive thesis — an open, exploratory thesis (E orientation): what is emerging.
Argument Delphi — a variation: dialectical theses and dialogue over rounds; aims at dissensus — maps tensions and reasoning (lead indicator CDI). The same process and phases as Classic Delphi.
Argument Simulator (Route B) — generator of synthetic, orientation-aware arguments when no real panel exists.
Barometer Delphi — a variation: the same theses rated from one time to the next, wave by wave; change over time is the finding (BCI). The only variation in which a thesis can be retired.
Basket (thesis material for the next round) — the facilitator's picks between rounds; does not change the comment and is not visible to the panel. Opens beside the thesis editor as source material.
Blind-facilitator mode — a per-panel setting that hides panelists' names and email addresses from the whole study team, the owner included. It locks once the first human panelist has been invited or has answered. Not the same as the blind visibility phase.
Classic Delphi — a variation: the same process and phases as Argument Delphi; aims at reasoned consensus and measures it with consensus indicators (CCI). The value stored in the contract is Classical.
Commensurability — enough shared ground for genuine dialogue; the goal of panel design (not full consensus).
Convergence — the narrowing of positions across rounds.
CP-0…CP-20 — the DAE pipeline's 21 checkpoints, grouped into eight phases.
Dialectical thesis — a claim taken a position on by probability and desirability (N/S/R/D).
Dissensus — structured, well-understood disagreement; in Delphi as valuable a result as consensus.
ECI (Epistemic Coverage Index) — how many of the 21 argument cells (7 knowledge bases × 3 functions) are filled.
Export contract — Pronoia's validated payload to DAE (eDelphi CSV, Handoff Package JSON, DAE_STATE).
Home cell and additional membership — a panelist's primary place in the panel matrix and any additional groups on the same axis; group size is counted in people, not memberships.
Handoff — a structured transfer between stages: Planning Handoff Package (in), export contract (out).
k-anonymity (k = 3) — no sub-group of fewer than three people is reported at group level.
κ (kappa) — a coding-agreement measure in DAE; low κ routes to human coding.
Lock-in — a single perspective claiming universality and crowding out the rest.
Logging policy — a public page (pronoia.fi/lokikaytanto): what is recorded in the event log and what is not, who sees the log and what the service administrator has committed to.
Closing — the study's final pause: the facilitator writes a letter about the results and next steps, and it appears on the panelist's home page. Not a state that is set but a task that is done.
Orientation (N/S/R/E/D/D+) — the study's locked standpoint; sets theses, panel type and between-round stance.
Panel matrix — a two-axis designed epistemic space (e.g. expertise × stakeholder).
Pause — the state between rounds (round_closed), in which the facilitator reads the discussion, picks and builds the next round; for the panelist an interim result, not a waiting room.
Perspective = position + view — the same phenomenon looks different from different positions; the aim is to identify what each can/cannot see.
PHS (Perspective Health Score) — panel diversity on 0–12; guides supplementation.
Pick — starring (☆) a reasoning or comment as thesis material for the next round, with a reason; a methodological move from dialogue to a new instrument, not a bookmark.
PIRE — Pronoia's orientation-aware round-gap assistant.
Planning Handoff Package — the planning payload into Pronoia: orientation, matrix, theses, perspective context.
PQS (Panel Quality Score) — DAE's panel-validation quality score (CP-1).
Preview (Try as panelist) — the facilitator sees the survey through a panelist's eyes under a preview identity of its own; nothing is saved, and the previewer does not appear in the panel's figures.
Pseudonym (handle) — a stable word handle (e.g. Aurora); anonymous to others, recognisable in dialogue.
QVG (Quality Validation Gate) — DAE's gate that routes to human review when AI validity is not enough.
Real-Time Delphi — a variation: one round in which answering and dialogue are open at the same time from the start; no comparison between rounds (RCI). The aim is set thesis by thesis.
Retirement (retiring → retired) — a Barometer Delphi concept: a thesis that has lost its future relevance is archived between waves. The decision and its taking effect are two moments; the replacing thesis names the one it replaced.
Revision rate — the share of people who changed their position after the dialogue among everyone who responded, humans and AI panelists together; computed in one place. Not the same as the number of revisions.
Round 0 — the orientation: an AI-assisted intake that motivates participants and maps the phenomenon before the instrument is locked. Belongs to every variation; the only way to skip it is the same in all.
Source material (provenance) — the contributions recorded on a thesis card as the ones the thesis came from; a deleted contribution keeps its record, its content is emptied.
Trilogy — a DAE phase group: content, system (depth/dynamics/purpose), futures.
Variation — the cadence of rounds: Argument Delphi, Classic Delphi, Real-Time Delphi or Barometer Delphi. The name is a proper name and is not translated. studies.variation is the truth from which delphi_mode is derived.
Wave — one measurement in a Barometer Delphi: the same theses rated again, the waves differing only in their date. A wave is not called a round, so that the words do not blur.
Phases (1a/1b) — a round's response (1a) and dialogue (1b) phases. A phase adds a capability, it never removes one: answering stays open in the dialogue.
Visibility (blind / after-submit / open) — the per-phase control of when a panelist sees others.