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Massively unhelpful study which nevertheless raises an important point about the democratic system of governance - intelligence not being a factor in making critically important decisions - which would appear to be an un-smart way of doing things
Is a study unhelpful if it leads to helpful questions?
Imagine a democracy in which you vote your IQ from an official test. If your IQ was measured at 114 your vote counts 114 times, etc. This seems obviously unfair. But would it improve the results? My intuition fails me here, I can't predict. I wonder if that rule would have swung Brexit the other way? That would give an idea of the magnitude of the difference.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Householder_Franchise (Check the other languages because they are more complete and better document the various forms).
Imagine a democracy in which you vote your IQ from an official test. If your IQ was measured at 114 your vote counts 114 times, etc. This seems obviously unfair. But would it improve the results? My intuition fails me here, I can't predict. I wonder if that rule would have swung Brexit the other way? That would give an idea of the magnitude of the difference.
And secondly- just because someone has a lower IQ, doesn’t mean their vote and view is any less valid.
The issue here, imho, is more that the fraudulent claims by the leave were not shut down so lower intelligence people were less able to understand and realise what was happening. They put their trust into the liars who were in it for their own gain rather than the good of the nation. This is, for me, the real story.
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> the interests of people with high IQ What would that be? More library funding? NASA? NSF?
Smart people are equally greedy and corruptable.
This entire idea if IQ or "smart" as somehow better has tried and failed repeatedly in history. There is no benevolent ruler, as they will get displaced in short order.
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The people with high IQ may vote to further the interests of people with high IQ, effectively oppressing the people with low IQ.
> the interests of people with high IQ What would that be? More library funding? NASA? NSF?
It stands to reason that the white-collar, high IQ voters would be less concerned with policies which affect manual laborers. These could include workplace safety protections, certification requirements, etc.
Massively unhelpful study which nevertheless raises an important point about the democratic system of governance - intelligence not being a factor in making critically important decisions - which would appear to be an un-smart way of doing things
There's no evidence that people with a higher IQ do better at choosing where to vote on the ballot. Germany, for example, was a highly educated society in the 1930s, one of the most educated in the world. They voted for Hitler.
Frame this north American style. The poorest voted for it because it was in their interests
They voted for it because they were propagandized into believing it was in their interests.
The "working class" voted to control immigration but were taken for a ride because those in charge actually want more immigration.