Uses of Fairminds

A fairmind can be on practically any topic where people disagree. Here are areas of interest to us:

• Voting / Public Opinion: Make it easier for people to have informed opinions about public policy. A more informed electorate means better societal decisions, in elections and in influencing politicians via public opinion.

• Education: Provide a new tool for teaching critical thinking. Cultivate students’ sense of what an informed, fair-minded viewpoint is—so they can better question what isn’t.

• Lifestyle and Personal Ethics: Help people explore life-changing questions of what to believe and how to live.

• Business: Provide a structured method for decision-makers to consider, decide, and communicate important questions of strategy and investment.

• Medicine: Help people make decisions about tests and treatments that have trade-offs and uncertainties.

• Law: Summarize legal cases and equivalent disputes via fairminds. In collaborative forms of alternative dispute resolution, a fairmind can be the basis for communicating and negotiating perspectives.

• Science and Scholarship: Communicate differing scientific and academic perspectives. Optionally use adversarial collaboration for joint authoring of a fairmind.

• Online Discourse: Ground online disputes, debates, and discourse in fairminds: People can disagree, but let it be within a framework of verified facts and sound arguments.

If you have additional suggestions for how fairminds can make a positive difference, let us know.