Toward more Effective Use of Expert Opinion: Preliminary Investigation of Participatory Polling for Long-Range Planning,

Abstract

The need for this study arose from two sources. First, prior review of Air Force and industrial practices in long-range R and D planning indicated that the most desirable and useful types of planning requires substantial participation of planners and decisionmakers in soliciting their assumptions, values, and opinions. Second, current techniques for obtaining such inputs, such as Delphi, suffer from numerous and severe limitations that need to be overcome. In response to these needs, the technique of participatory polling was developed for a prototype trial in this study. This polling technique has five key features: (1) iterative polling, (2) participant-interpreted reasons for responses, (3) evaluation of the interpretations of others, (4) quantitative and qualitative group feedback, and (5) formal questionnaire design and analysis. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1976
Accession Number
ADA040885

Entities

People

  • H. Sackman

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Counter WMD
  • Cyber
  • Human Systems
  • Sensors
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Analysis Of Variance
  • Applied Psychology
  • Databases
  • Delphi Method
  • Experimental Design
  • Guidance
  • Information Processing
  • Information Science
  • Ions
  • New York
  • Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Statistical Tests
  • Statistics

Readers

  • Educational Psychology
  • Organizational Process Management (OPM).
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.