This is in relation to using them when it comes to making a decision.
2007-06-15 20:44:18 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
No; a concensus indicates that everyone agrees, or almost everyone. A majority can exist with only 51 percent.
2007-06-15 20:47:55 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Try to interchange them or extract one or replace it with the other in the following sentence and the decision becomes awkward, warped, meaningless or elusive.
"The majority consensus is that we all match to the river."
2007-06-16 04:30:50 · answer #2 · answered by ari-pup 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Majority means most of the people agreed. Consensus means all the people agree.
2007-06-16 04:18:47 · answer #3 · answered by Mumtaz Piracha 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In a manner of speaking, yes. Consensus means a "majority of opinion"; majority means more than half.
2007-06-16 03:49:21 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
dances with u ...got it right.
They're not the same.
2007-06-16 05:58:25 · answer #5 · answered by gerbera 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋