From: | Joshua N Pritikin <jpritikin(at)pobox.com> |
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Date: | Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:43:25 -0700 |
Subject: | Re: [WDDM] Democracy axioms |
My knowledge of this comes more from classes in how mass media (which
covered how to manipulate polls).
Unfortunately, I have no statistics for that portion, I'm sorry.
Though corruption is obviously a thing that isn't documented as much
as it should be, so getting worthwhile statistics on such a topic
would be tricky.
That's how come the self-selected polls would work better.
Should Sally May's pet cat get a street named after her?
Should we declare war on a 3rd world communist country that just declared it
was going to develop nuclear arsenal?
Granted, the polls do accurately show to some degree how the public
will vote on the topics.
The poll doesn't decide which side will win, again that's the purpose
of the vote itself.
Yes, in traditional normal situations, a random poll is insanely more
reliable than a self-selected poll. However, a government fully by the
people is anything but a traditional normal situation.