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You’re talking about data driven decision making as opposed to fear based decision making. If we are so smart, we would have hired psychometricians to advice every aspect of our government.


I remember reading that Ross Perot wanted to do this if he became president. He also wanted direct voting at electronic voting stations so people could vote on specific laws.


except you'd somehow have to elevate those psychometricians to a point of not having any sort of political beliefs or goals themselves.




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