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by OJFord 524 days ago
How could a voting system anywhere be expected to represent truth rather than consensus?
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xyzzy4747 524 days ago
It probably depends if the audience is intelligent and open-minded, but I agree, it will always be biased towards their preconceptions.
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OJFord 524 days ago
Even then that's consensus on what the participants believe to be true (whether it's what they believed beforehand or not) - not a method of determining what is actually true.
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