The Disaggregative Policy Delphi, developed by Petri Tapio, uses cluster analysis as a systematic tool to construct various scenarios of the future in the latest Delphi round.

In short, no central banker can be the Oracle of Delphi.

Delphi is a city in and the county seat of Carroll County, Indiana, United States.

The Delphi method is based on the assumption that group judgments are more valid than individual judgments.

The Delphi method was developed at the beginning of the Cold War to forecast the impact of technology on warfare.

The Argument Delphi, was developed by Osmo Kuusi, focuses on ongoing discussion and finding relevant arguments rather than focusing on the output.

Even US Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan ordinarily the Oracle of Delphi on interest rate matters, has declared the current situation a conundrum.

The Delphi method ( ) is a structured communication technique, originally developed as a systematic, interactive forecasting method which relies on a panel of experts.

Later the Delphi method was applied in other areas, especially those related to public policy issues, such as economic trends, health and education.

In 1999, another sculpture, Omphalos (named after Omphalos, a small sculpture in the temple at Delphi, marking the centre of the world ), was created.

The technique can also be adapted for use in face to face meetings, and is then called mini Delphi or Estimate Talk Estimate (ETE).

The Temple of Apollo at Delphi bore the inscription, Nothing in excess, while Aristotelian philosophy held that the golden mean was the path to the good.

A study using the Delphi methodology is being conducted in Chile, the Dominican Republic, Panama and Uruguay to help countries to identify long term scenarios for ageing policies.

For example, in one case reported by Basu and Schroeder (1977), the Delphi method predicted the sales of a new product during the first two years with inaccuracy of 3 4 compared with actual sales.

Socrates, Plato s teacher, famously goaded the Athenian authorities by maintaining that he was wiser than the Oracle at Delphi, who claimed to be the wisest, because he, unlike most people (including the Athenian authorities), knew that he did not know anything.

In short, no central banker can be the Oracle of Delphi. Indeed, many academic economists believe that central bankers could perfectly well be replaced with a computer programmed to implement a simple rule that adjusts interest rates mechanically in response to output and inflation.

Recent work in the UK (Delphi consultation exercise due to be published late 2009 by Royal Society of Public Health and the National Social Marketing Centre) on relationship between health promotion and social marketing has highlighted and reinforce the potential integrative nature of the approaches.