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The participants were all self-selected (volunteers) who applied to participate in the engagement. The organizers then sifted through the lists of volunteers and designated the ‘stakeholder’ (those with vested interests) and ‘non-stakeholder’ groups for the ethics-focused stage allowing only the non-expert, non-stakeholder group to participate.
Thus, the min mini public designed for the deliberation ended up being 250 volunteers who had been deemed as non-stakeholders, with no previous professional medical or scientific knowledge or experience related to the issue.
==Deliberative Process==