Cultural Consensus Theory (CCT) is a popular information pooling methodology used in the
social and behavioral sciences. CCT consists of cognitive models designed to determine a
consensus truth shared by a group of informants (respondents), and to better understand the
cognitive characteristics of the informants (eg level knowledge, response biases). However
prior to this paper, no CCT models have been developed that allow the possibility of the
informant responses to come from a mixture of two or more consensus answer patterns. The …