Some of the expert elicitation stuff I've read recommends having experts draw distributions for some uncertain variable, then show each other their distributions, and then talk about why they did what they did- this'll often reveal where they have different information quickly and easily, and this works much better than having them compare point estimates or verbal descriptions.
Similarly, drawing causal models and Bayes nets of situations seems like an easy visual representation of things that may be difficult to quickly convey verbally.
What sort of things are you imagining communicating?
I'm imagining something less precise. Betty Edwards describes running corporate training seminars where she helped groups in corporations address their work problems, starting with drawing exercises and then using drawing to describe the problems they're working on. She reports:
...The results of the seminars have been sometimes startling, sometimes almost amusing in terms of the obviousness of engendered solutions. An example of a startling result was a surprising revelation experienced by the group working on the chemical problem. It turned out that the gr
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