Ask HN: Is there a way to quantify opinions into a tangible tree/graph?
Take any given topic, say political for example.
Say the president does or says something.
Is there a way to quantify everyone's opinion about this into a tangible set of statements that you can agree or disagree with? In addition to ACH (mentioned by tboyd47), there is argument mapping. https://www.rationaleonline.com/docs/en/tutorials#h9qc66 See rationale for software: There are many ways to do it. You could load documents containing facts, opinions or other information into a database and then add another "table" that links one thing to another so we can say that "opinion B is a response to opinion A" or that any sort of relationship exists between them. I think this even more interesting when we apply it to a set of documents that have business, engineering or science value. Yes! There is a great way to do this called ACH (Analysis of Competing Hypothesis). It's a wonderful way to clarify your thoughts about a complex issue. It is used within the CIA.