This article made me realize one of the inherent strengths of democracy-by-voting, as opposed to “dataism” and an over-obsession with statistics: the vote doesn

This article made me realize one of the inherent strengths of democracy-by-voting, as opposed to “dataism” and an over-obsession with statistics: the vote doesn’t require any kind of debate that relies on nitpicking and selecting using certain data and omitting other data. Usually this is interpreted as a bad thing, as the electorate being uninformed, uninterested, etc. But it might actually be good in the opposite way, because the feelings and experiences of real-world people are ultimately what matter. No one can tell you, “Sorry, that experience you had isn’t valid and my gish-gallop of 500 pages of data analysis shows why.”