{"id":3649,"date":"2010-02-25T13:27:30","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T18:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=3649"},"modified":"2010-02-25T13:27:30","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T18:27:30","slug":"repost-national-juries-overcoming-bias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/25\/repost-national-juries-overcoming-bias\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost :: National Juries :: Overcoming Bias"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Read the whole thing by clicking through the overcoming bias blog!!!<br \/>\nWould something like this work for the Philippines? No as long as the Education System is in shambles we cannot do anything as radical as this.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\">National Juries<\/h1>\n<div class=\"entry-meta\"><span class=\"author vcard\">By <a class=\"url fn n\" title=\"View all posts by Robin Hanson\" href=\"http:\/\/www.overcomingbias.com\/author\/robin-hanson\/\">Robin Hanson<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"meta-sep\">\u00b7<\/span> <span class=\"entry-date\"><abbr class=\"published\" title=\"2010-02-25T12:00:47-0500\">February 25, 2010 12:00 pm<\/abbr><\/span> <span class=\"meta-sep\">\u00b7<\/span> <span class=\"comments-link\"><a class=\"comment-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.overcomingbias.com\/2010\/02\/national-juries.html#respond\">Discuss<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"meta-sep\">\u00b7<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.overcomingbias.com\/2010\/02\/soothing-the-sad-savage.html\">\u00ab\u00a0Prev<\/a> \u00b7<\/div>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The reason so many bad policies are good politics is that so many people vote. \u2026 Ignorant voters \u2026 are biased towards particular errors. \u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The best way to improve modern politics? \u2026 The number of voters should be drastically reduced so that each voter realizes that his vote will matter. Something like 12 voters per district \u2026 selected at random from the electorate. With 535 districts in Congress \u2026 there would be 6,420 voters nationally. A random selection would deliver a proportional representation of sexes, ages, races and income groups. This would improve on the current system, in which the voting population is skewed \u2026 the old vote more than the young, the rich vote more than the poor, and so on.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">To safeguard against the possibility of abuse, these 6,420 voters would not know that they had been selected at random until the moment when the polling officers arrived at their house. They would then be spirited away to a place where they will spend a week locked away with the candidates, attending a series of speeches, debates and question-and-answer sessions before voting on the final day.\u00a0 All of these events should be filmed and broadcast, so that everyone could make sure that nothing dodgy was going on.<\/p>\n<p>More <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebigquestions.com\/2010\/02\/25\/fewer-voters-are-better-voters\/\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 This logic is simple and strong enough for most folks to both understand and accept.\u00a0 Yet most would still prefer our current system \u2013 why?<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.overcomingbias.com\/2010\/02\/national-juries.html\">Overcoming Bias : National Juries<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read the whole thing by clicking through the overcoming bias blog!!! Would something like this work for the Philippines? No as long as the Education System is in shambles we cannot do anything as radical as this. National Juries By Robin Hanson \u00b7 February 25, 2010 12:00 pm \u00b7 Discuss \u00b7 \u00ab\u00a0Prev \u00b7 The reason &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/25\/repost-national-juries-overcoming-bias\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost :: National Juries :: Overcoming Bias&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,45,62,64,65,66,78,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idea","category-interesting","category-personal-angol","category-pettiness","category-philippines","category-politics","category-rant","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}