Minimum Viable Consensus

The smallest set of claims that all high-ranking results for a query space share — the irreducible floor of established knowledge on a topic. The minimum viable consensus is the threshold below which a piece of content cannot fall without being excluded from the result set entirely.

Example: For ‘project management methodologies,’ the minimum viable consensus includes: Agile, Waterfall, and Scrum as named methodologies; the concept of iterative vs. sequential approaches; and some treatment of suitability by project type. Content that does not address these elements is structurally excluded from the consensus.

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