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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?
I wonder who knows best what’s best for the common man, himself or University of Baths “school of management“?
I’ve only even here for a few months for work, but I’ve never been in a more classist country than the UK. It’s shocking.
I am happy for the British public. They might be stupider than their overlords, but at least they brought the power back slightly closer to themselves.
These things are always brought up when supposedly right wing voting happens(=against the interests of the ruling class). I wonder who knows best what’s best for the common man, himself or University of Baths “school of management“? I’ve only even here for a few months for work, but I’ve never been in a more classist country than the UK. It’s shocking. I am happy for the British public. They might be stupider than th…
Genuinely curious... How does this manifest itself in practice there?
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.
The people with high IQ may vote to further the interests of people with high IQ, effectively oppressing the people with low IQ.
What would that be? More library funding? NASA? NSF?
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 “more likely to be manipulated” too?
These things are always brought up when supposedly right wing voting happens(=against the interests of the ruling class). I wonder who knows best what’s best for the common man, himself or University of Baths “school of management“? I’ve only even here for a few months for work, but I’ve never been in a more classist country than the UK. It’s shocking. I am happy for the British public. They might be stupider than th…
> I’ve never been in a more classist country than the UK. It’s shocking. Genuinely curious... How does this manifest itself in practice there?
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.
> Prominent economists such as John Maynard Keynes declared the treaty too harsh, styling it as a "Carthaginian peace", and saying the reparations were excessive and counterproductive. On the other hand, prominent Allied figures such as French Marshal Ferdinand Foch criticized the treaty for treating Germany too leniently. This is still the subject of ongoing debate by historians and economists.