The Obamanation

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a Cold War-era mind-control technique known as "Delphi"

My understanding and experience with the Dephi Method is almost the opposite of that description.

I believe that instead of mind-control, this method of decision-making
removes the influence of the more authoritative or well-known leaders,
and eliminates any "appeal to authority" by the reputation of individuals in the group,
It allows equal weight to the idea or proposal of each individual respondent in the group.

Here is a description from Wikipedia:

The Delphi method (play /ˈdɛlfaɪ/ DEL-fy) is a structured communication technique,
originally developed as a systematic, interactive forecasting method
which relies on a panel of experts.[1]

In the standard version, the experts answer questionnaires in two or more rounds.
After each round, a facilitator provides an anonymous summary of the experts’ forecasts
from the previous round as well as the reasons they provided for their judgments.
Thus, experts are encouraged to revise their earlier answers in light of the replies
of other members of their panel.

It is believed that during this process the range of the answers will decrease
and the group will converge towards the "correct" answer.
Finally, the process is stopped after a pre-defined stop criterion (e.g. number of rounds,
achievement of consensus, stability of results) and the mean or median scores
of the final rounds determine the results.[2]

But then, re-defining words to mean just their opposite is a traditional tool of right wing extremists.