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> My point being that many people are not able to objectively look at something and make a decision. Their opinions and feelings will always get mixed in. Isn'
by cortesoft 4y ago
> My point being that many people are not able to objectively look at something and make a decision. Their opinions and feelings will always get mixed in.
Isn't the idea that individuals will have biases, but on average they will cancel each other out when aggregated together? I don't think that is necessarily true, but I think it is overly simplistic to say that individuals having biases means the consensus of the crowd can't work.
- thatguy0900 4y agoYou can't get a aggregation from the public, not really. Most people won't participate, the only people who will bother are the ones with a axe to grind. Only 66% of people can even be bothered to vote on the president of the us, what's the percent that will spend their free time fact checking on Twitter? Only the ones who really want to push their own facts will do it.
- lalopalota 4y ago> Isn't the idea that individuals will have biases, but on average they will cancel each other out when aggregated together? That doesn't work out online when an individual can have 1, 10, 50+ votes depending on how much they care about a topic (or the voting in general).