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Ask 1000 randomly chosen people 10 basic questions about a subject, work out the average score. If a Congressperson/Senate member can't get a better score than
by noir_lord 10y ago
Ask 1000 randomly chosen people 10 basic questions about a subject, work out the average score.
If a Congressperson/Senate member can't get a better score than the average of the 1000 on that subject then they don't get to vote on the legislation.
(I'm not serious..but sometimes I wonder).
I call it the "Yogi Test" (smarter than the average bear).
- chadgeidel 10y agoSounds good. Until you try to define "1000 random people" and "10 basic questions". :-)
- make3 10y agoAnd who picks the answers, and who scores
- Dylan16807 10y agoThe nice thing about a percentile score is that you have enormous leeway in how difficult the questions are. And it's not that hard to find people that are mostly not experts on a subject.
- nostromo 10y agoMost regulations are already written by "experts." Oil companies write oil regulations, bankers write banking regulations, etc. I don't think this is an ideal state.
- ouid 10y agothe problem there is not their expertise, but their interests. you can insist on both.