Comments on: Teachers 4 Turnout http://www.decisionsciencenews.com/2008/10/17/teachers-4-turnout/ A website about decision research in Marketing, Psychology, Economics, Behavioral Economics, Finance, Medicine, Law, Management, Public Policy, Statistics, Computer Science. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:44:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: jsalvati http://www.decisionsciencenews.com/2008/10/17/teachers-4-turnout/comment-page-1/#comment-290 jsalvati Fri, 17 Oct 2008 19:11:47 +0000 http://www.decisionsciencenews.com/?p=520#comment-290 "No, having as many people as possible voting is not a legitimate public interest." I think we should make a meta decision here. Should we be encouraging students (and people in general) to vote? We should only be encouraging a person to vote if we believe that them voting will on average increase the quality of behavior from politicians (both in the politicians elected and what the politicians do to stay in office). I think should urge people think rationally about whether they should vote or not; whether their voting will increase the quality of government. http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/10/weathersons-bad.html “No, having as many people as possible voting is not a legitimate public interest.”

I think we should make a meta decision here. Should we be encouraging students (and people in general) to vote? We should only be encouraging a person to vote if we believe that them voting will on average increase the quality of behavior from politicians (both in the politicians elected and what the politicians do to stay in office). I think should urge people think rationally about whether they should vote or not; whether their voting will increase the quality of government.

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/10/weathersons-bad.html

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