Yes the consensus will inform on changes or outcomes! Rather than their universal acceptance! We live in apartments rather than detached houses? Why? Well because we are offered the former rather than the latter as barely affordable options close enough or connected well enough to where we work, play, study shop etc, to be practical!

Therefore none of the garnered information can truly inform, if the collected and collated data doesn't determine much of an element of actual choice! Rather, may well inform of a take or leave it developer's or Hobson's choice in relation to the choice of abode etc?
Alan B.