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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: i-node who wrote (1379468)11/9/2022 6:46:18 PM
From: Qone0  Read Replies (1) of 1572209
 
>> I fundamentally disagree with the notion that every person has a responsibility to vote. Only that small subset that is informed on the issues has the responsibility imo <<

You just disqualified yourself from voting. You obviously know very little about any issues that concern democracy.

In his award-winning book, The Wisdom of Crowds, James Surowiecki explains that the many are smarter than the few—but only under the right conditions. Political scientist James Fishkin’s deliberative democracy experiments persuasively prove that ordinary citizens can deal with complex problems and make thoughtful decisions. “The public is very smart if you give it a chance…If people think their voice actually matters, they’ll do the hard work.”




In 1906, British scientist Francis Galton discovered the “wisdom of crowds” at a country fair contest, in which individuals tried to guess the weight of an ox. No one’s guess, no matter how expert that person might be, was as accurate as the collective guess of the crowd. The average of the 787 guesses from the crowd proved to be perfect. The ox weighed exactly 1198 pounds. Galton’s remarkable experiment contradicted popular assumptions that human groups are like herds, easily influenced and likely to make rash, emotional decisions.

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