← all lessonsLESSON 5 OF 8 · TABLES 3–4: COUNTING VOTES, ENSURING AUTONOMY; HELD SEATS
Cluster and Select
Clusters help people read the wall and vote across themes. Five stickers each, in silence. Then the two findings bite: the loudest idea wins, and the true cause got no votes.
After voting, “Customs forms are filled by the wrong desk” has no stickers. A dispatcher says the customs office’s own returns prove it. What happens?
✗ Not that one. The method’s answer is marked below; read why yours is not it.
Nothing — the room voted, and it lost.✗ not this · your pick
This is the erroneous priorities effect in person: importance judged before the links are known. The method holds seats precisely for this card.
The dispatcher nominates it with the source; if two people agree the source is on the topic, it takes a held seat and is structured with the rest.✓ what the method does
Five of fifteen places are held for exactly this. In simulation the seats are what keep a biased room finding causes at all.
You add it to the shortlist yourself — you can see it matters.✗ not this
You cannot see that it matters; nobody can before Structure. And the steward has no seat to give.
ON THIS PLATFORM
Nominate with a link; a reader checks the source is on the topic (advisory only); two people confirm; the card takes a seat. Cluster names never gate anything.