It seems plausible that a panel seems like the correct choice to me, but I will highlight that 10 people seems like about a factor of 3 too many people to me, and I would be much more excited about a panel of 3-4 people. My models of panels of 10 is that it’s very hard to reach any kind of common knowledge, and that any decisions will be primarily determined by the framing of the question, and not the evidence at hand.
To clarify (my current understanding of the panel, based on having attended a meeting about it) – the panel is not something where all 10 people are supposed to reach agreement about anything. Individual cases will have 3-4 people assigned to them (most likely with the people involved in the dispute each picking a panel-member they trust).
The reason there are 10 is because it’s quite likely that serving as a panel member will seriously burn people out, and it seemed better to start with an excess of people who were interested in putting in the work for a time.
It seems plausible that a panel seems like the correct choice to me, but I will highlight that 10 people seems like about a factor of 3 too many people to me, and I would be much more excited about a panel of 3-4 people. My models of panels of 10 is that it’s very hard to reach any kind of common knowledge, and that any decisions will be primarily determined by the framing of the question, and not the evidence at hand.
To clarify (my current understanding of the panel, based on having attended a meeting about it) – the panel is not something where all 10 people are supposed to reach agreement about anything. Individual cases will have 3-4 people assigned to them (most likely with the people involved in the dispute each picking a panel-member they trust).
The reason there are 10 is because it’s quite likely that serving as a panel member will seriously burn people out, and it seemed better to start with an excess of people who were interested in putting in the work for a time.
That seems more reasonable, and I think the mechanism of each person involved picking a panel member might work.