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Hiyab Gebretsadik Weldearegay Critics on Heritage Laws and Tourism Politics in Ethiopia

Figure 1 The Five-Phased Delphi Flow Chart
Source Adapted from Fish and Busby (2005)

not mediated by values and strived to avoid at least Role of the Facilitator
conscious bias while recognising that this aspiration The role of the facilitator included but not limited to;
designing overall Delphi methodology including se-
is ‘difficult’ to attain with completely ‘objective’ reality. lecting panel’s fields and inclusion criteria, determin-
Though all the above efforts were put in place to attain ing panel composition (size/expert breadth), deter-
an acceptable level of objectivity, by appreciating the mining Delphi period and number of rounds; sending
influence of the value system, the researcher would invitation to participate in Delphi study and all nit-
like to reflect that by religion; he is a sceptic ethically; ty-gritty listed in the forming Phase of the Delphi;
Defuzzification (where imprecise data are converted
by political belief, he is Leninist, and, he has both ac- into something that has precision; reducing fuzzy
ademic and professional experience in the field if this sets of ideas into coherent ones; numbers and figures
biography would periphrastically influence the study are transformed into linguistic expressions or terms;
process. Readers are, therefore, advised to vigilantly and, excessively jargon terms or proverbs, idiomatic
take this into account as it is pretty tricky (though expressions are converted into conventional expres-
sions; filtering out “irrelevant (to the topic) or dupli-
attainable) to ‘absolutely’ control how, where, when,
cated” content); providing an anonymised summary
and in what way this biography might periphrastically opinions; circulating outlier answers to be iteratively
influence the research process. ventilated; measuring and reporting consensus levels

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