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Prepare people for the kind of process involved. In particular, it can be useful to have a dialogic step unrelated to the topic, to get people used to talking with and listening to each other in a non-judgemental manner and to build the trust and cooperation needed for good collaboration.

How to Design and Plan Public Engagement Processes: A Handbook

Wendy Faulkner, Claire Bynner

Anyone who has deeply tasted failure will recognize the impulse: __given the destruction of hope and desire, the preservation of one’s own active voice is the only way to make failure bearable.__

The Corrosion of Character

Richard Sennett

Bayesian statistics, of which classical statistics are a special case, require a “prior” (that is, a probability distribution that captures our initial beliefs), and provide a method for revising the prior in the light of new information. Experience is a natural source of prior beliefs.

Sense and Solidarity

Jean Drèze

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