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Originally Posted by GreyingJay
Voting by popular opinion is not an engineering decision making process.
But the process of analyzing each option, listing pros and cons, weighting them, deciding what levels of risks and tradeoffs are acceptable, can lead to a decision by consensus.
People who are consistently in the minority in this type of decision making tend to have different base criteria than the others. They have a different level of acceptable risk for example, or they are using decision factors not in everyone else's mindset (like "coolness factor").
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This is also somewhat of a problem this year with so many unexperienced members who don't know the difference between Labview and a PCM, therefore wouldn't be very valuable in a democratic process. One of the mentors in question here could also be considered part of this group, as they don't have much experience with manufacturing and engineering, but they're pushing some design aspects just because they saw them on Ri3D and though they looked cool.