Delphi technique

Delphi technique (or method). A method of polling people in order to produce a group judgment. Typically, this might involve soliciting individually the judgments of experts on a possible future event. The judgments of the different experts would later be combined to create a consensus view. The Delphi technique keeps individual responses anonymous so that social influences (prestige of a certain participant, shyness of certain participants, etc.) are minimized. However, the Delphi administrator can repose questions to the group to refine the consensus judgment.