Re: General Resolution: Change the resolution process: results
Hi,
On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 8:00 AM Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> wrote:
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> I don't see how encouraging people to vote who lack either an opinion on
> the subject in hand, or the motivation to vote, is supposed to improve
> the outcome.
Yeah, I think it's based on mathematics.
On average, higher turnout reduces the sampling error: "The error (or
disturbance) of an observed value is the deviation of the observed
value from the (unobservable) true value of a quantity of interest."
[1]
Kind regards
Felix Lechner
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Errors_and_residuals
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