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True, but maybe there could be some sort of democratic consensus system to establish the questions (one which by design avoids the superficial circularity).
by Myrmornis 9y ago
True, but maybe there could be some sort of democratic consensus system to establish the questions (one which by design avoids the superficial circularity).
- GoToRO 9y agoAsk questions that a 5th grader could answer. The level does not hove too be that high for it to be effective. Or... just ask science questions: "Is planet Earth flat?".
- ivanbakel 9y agoThat just tests the ability to stick to consensus - what happens when you get the equivalent of "does the Sun orbit the Earth" in a society before Copernicus and Galileo? You also move away entirely from the original point of the questions - someone with scientific knowledge doesn't necessarily know anything about society and politics. They're separate worlds.
- GoToRO 9y agoIn a society before Copernicus and Galileo that question would have been cutting edge science. So just stick to well understood things.
- 0xcde4c3db 9y agoEven that is apparently fraught because a few people (though no sects I'm aware of) profess belief in a flat Earth for religious reasons. For example, Biblical literalists interpreting Job 38 as implying a flat Earth ("Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? [...] Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof").
- GoToRO 9y agoThat's exactly the point: exclude those people. The idea is not to have everybody pass the test.