From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rafal@smigrodzki.org)
Date: Wed May 28 2003 - 14:51:22 MDT
owner-extropians@extropy.org wrote:
> Rafal Smigrodzki wrote:
>>
>> ### Try the non-territorial bicameral supermajoritarian IQ-weighed
>> demarchy with automatic sunset laws, vernier voting, and with a
>> prohibition of delegation of legislative authority. These are my pet
>> ideas for the best political system, and if you are sufficiently
>> intrigued, you can find the details in my posts to ExI and wta-talk
>> over the past two years.
>
> What has the field of IQ science ever done to you, that you should
> wish for its total destruction?
### Ah, yes "politics corrodes whatever it touches", I remember.
This is an important point, since the use of IQ testing in political matters
would put the field under even more intense political pressure than now. One
method would be to enshrine the general methodology of IQ measurement in the
constitution of the polity. An IQ test measures mainly the ability to answer
questions without recourse to factual knowledge. Therefore, an IQ difference
is a measure of differences in the ability to process information, this is
what remains after comparing two persons with the same knowledge of facts.
Its measures could be defined strictly enough, and are tied to average
population performance by standardization procedures, so cannot be easily
manipulated short of rebuilding the society.
Basic science might be less corruptible than congressional districts. I
hope.
Rafal
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