Timeline for Vote amount according to "intelligence"
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| Jul 15, 2018 at 7:19 | comment | added | what number you wanted | @Acccumulation: Quoting [for you] from the answer: "Let's also assume there is a perfect, and well agreed upon definition of stupid, average, and smart. [...] There are way more stupid people then there are smart people. It's just that simple." | |
| Jul 14, 2018 at 21:22 | comment | added | Acccumulation | @Fizz Your comment relies on the cut-off for stupidity being the same number of IQ points below the mean s the cut-off for smartness is above the mean. | |
| Jul 12, 2018 at 12:32 | comment | added | coteyr | I never mentioned IQ once in my answer. In fact I left the intelligence testing process totally vague. | |
| Jul 12, 2018 at 11:20 | comment | added | user9790 | IQ is distributed on a bell curve. There are exactly the same number of smart people and stupid people. You are coflating people who are average who just think they are smart | |
| Jul 11, 2018 at 6:51 | comment | added | JonathanReez | #4 is the only important reason. If we had robocops the system could actually work. | |
| Jul 11, 2018 at 4:09 | comment | added | what number you wanted | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populism#The_Elite | |
| Jul 11, 2018 at 3:58 | comment | added | what number you wanted | I think your "problem 1" is incorrect. With your definitions of "stupid" and "smart", it's likely there's an equal number of people in both bins, because IQ is normally distributed (the [in]famous Bell curve). As for your concluding remakrs, it's not even what the OP is asking, never mind how silly it sounds. So you/we don't want the best (e.g.) finance minister, just an average economist, etc.,... in the name of "stability". Hmm... Sounds like a textbook anti-elitism discourse. | |
| Jun 9, 2016 at 14:57 | comment | added | Dan Bryant | Points (4) and (5) are the most critical here, I think. Over a long history of bloody revolutions, human societies have slowly developed systems that channel human power struggles into forms that are less likely to result in horrific acts of violence. Enfranchisement (or at least a sufficiently convincing simulacrum of it) is a key part of moderating the violent urges of the mob mentality. The role of government is not to make intelligent decisions; the role of government is to diffuse the animal instincts in all of us that would otherwise leave suffering and misery in their wake. | |
| Jun 9, 2016 at 14:02 | history | edited | Brythan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 9, 2016 at 12:53 | comment | added | Matthias Schreiber | Thanks for everybody who answered so far, I think there are really good points made. This answer is closest to what I expected though, clear, elaborate and it didn't hang itself on any lack of definition of a word on my part. | |
| Jun 9, 2016 at 12:49 | vote | accept | Matthias Schreiber | ||
| Jun 9, 2016 at 12:40 | history | answered | coteyr | CC BY-SA 3.0 |