> what's going on in the middle east in regards to foreign policy questions about that topic Also not a great example of something we understand. I think reali

> what's going on in the middle east in regards to foreign policy questions about that topic Also not a great example of something we understand. I think realistically you would not be able to test on something so practical since most of these things are so poorly understood. Logic tests may be the safest thing you could test, though at that point you would just be cutting everyone off below a certain SAT score. If I were in charge of coming up with a test, it wouldn't be a logic test, but some sort of test against hubris: to see how much they can admit that they don't know or can't know. In my opinion politicians play the "I know everything vote for me" game and load up on untested theories, leading to poor results (interventionist foreign policy leading to terrorism, stock market crashes, maybe even deep ocean drilling, etc). But I also recognize that while I believe that excluding overconfident people (the ones who don't know what they don't know) from office would lead to better outcomes, I also suspect that this could turn out terribly.