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> "But also, I think you might be underestimating the amount of people required to get actual representative samples of our populations. If you look at the expe
by anonymouskimmer 4y ago
> "But also, I think you might be underestimating the amount of people required to get actual representative samples of our populations. If you look at the experiments that have been done in France, Iceland, the EU even in countries in South America; minipublics haven't really had a big problem getting enough people to participate. You might be surprised just at how much people want to be able to have an input in how politics is done in our countries."
Are these actually representative subsets in all respects, or just based on the major demographic categories?
- jerojero 4y agoIt really depends on which experiment you look at, but the one that I know best which was the one done in Chile managed to capture a fair few demographic categories. You can be as granular as you want it really depends if you have the means to do it, and if you think about this from the state-perspective, you would most definitely be able to capture as much granularity as you wanted. Generally, I would say though, capturing major demographic categories (age, gender, sexuality, socioeconomic status) tends to be enough to produce very good outcomes. Specially when it comes to socioeconomic status which is definitely one of the biggest concerns with oligarchic politics. I mean, think about how much money and time it actually costs to run for congressman or senator.