Consensus Meter 2.0
We launched the original Consensus Meter in 2023. The Meter allowed users to quickly understand the overall agreement or disagreement among the research for ‘yes/no’ questions. Immediately it became one of our flagship features, you can learn more here.
Despite its popularity, the Consensus had a major flaw: it provided no additional context about the papers in it’s overview. Every paper in the Consensus Meter counted the same regardless if it was an N=1 case report or a Cochrane Systematic Review. This is not how science is done.
Today, we are excited to launch the next version of the Consensus Meter to address these issues. The new Consensus Meter adds additional nuance for each “position”, providing detail about the methodology, the recency, the publishing journal and the impact of the papers. Click the table icon on the bottom of the Meter to see it in action!
To use the Consensus Meter you must ask a “yes or no” questions like:
Does creatine improve cognitive performance? Does Vitamin C help with flu symptoms? Are statins effective in elderly patients?Once the Consensus Meter fires, press the table icon on the bottom right corner of the Meter to view the new “Consensus Snapshot”. To get unlimited uses of the Consensus Snapshot, upgrade to Consensus Premium today. The Consensus Snapshot gives you a short summary of each position as well as summary statistics across four quality indicators:
- Recency: the average publish date of the papers in each position
- Methods: the count of papers in each position that are Meta Analyses, Systematic Reviews or RCTs
- Journals: the average SJR score for the publishing journals across the papers in each position
- Citations: the sum of citations across the papers in each position
The snapshot view is built to give you an easy-to-consume, but nuanced, view of the positions of the returned research papers. Each example query listed above shows an example of the new Meter capturing additional helpful context. Further updates to the Consensus Meter launching today include:
- Fresh new designs
- New “Mixed” class of predictions to capture papers with nuanced conclusions (i.e. “the intervention worked for this group, but not this group”)
- Indicator badges to show which positions “won” a certain category of quality
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The features on our roadmap come directly from our users, and we can’t wait to keep building them for you! Get unlimited access to all Consensus features (and new releases), upgrade to Premium today:
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