scott <sco### [at] laptopcom> wrote:
> >  Imagine if the leaders of the country were decided by the vote of 12
> > random people. *That* would be absurd.

> That's not very absurd at all, unless the elections were really close, 
> asking 12 totally random people would probably give the same result as 
> asking the whole population.  Raise that number to just 30 or 50 people and 
> you'd almost certainly get the same result every time.  If you're good at 
> stats you can work out the figures.

  Why does it seem so damn hard to understand what I am talking about?

  When I say 12 people, I mean 12 people. I don't mean 100 million people
vote one way and 100000012 people vote the other way.

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                                                          - Warp

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