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Keep power, affectedness and importance separate

Use transparent component judgments to focus discussion without ranking human worth.

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Power, affectedness and perspective

Power and affectedness discussion matrix

Prioritize access, protection, and direct voice

Highly affected · Lower formal power

Co-design and preserve differing experience

Highly affected · Shared or variable power

Require accountability and avoid speaking for others

Highly affected · Higher formal power

Remove barriers and verify representation

Moderately affected · Lower formal power

Involve in analysis and feedback

Moderately affected · Shared or variable power

Consult, disclose influence, and define responsibility

Moderately affected · Higher formal power

Monitor dependencies and missing links

Indirectly affected · Lower formal power

Maintain feedback and relationship evidence

Indirectly affected · Shared or variable power

Inform transparently and test unexamined influence

Indirectly affected · Higher formal power

Use the matrix to find participation questionsā€”not to rank human worth, legitimacy, or importance.

Assess component judgments separately and record their rationale:

  • Influence or formal power: ability to authorize, block, fund, regulate or shape implementation.
  • Affectedness: scale, intensity, duration and reversibility of likely effects.
  • Interest or attention: current expressed attentionā€”not importance.
  • Stance: current, conditional and changeable; distinguish direct statement from inference.
  • Knowledge, vulnerability and access: treat these as facilitation prompts recorded through roles, needs, concerns, accessibility requirements and linked safeguardsā€”not as hidden scores.
  • Claim basis: record why the actor is in scope; never convert a claimed role, impact or mandate into objective legitimacy.

A high-power/low-affected actor may require accountability. A low-power/highly affected actor may require priority access, protection and direct voice. Do not use one combined score to erase these differences.

Record disagreement and confidence. A spread may indicate different time horizons, information, definitions or experiencesā€”not an error to average away.