On: Why one Republican voted to kill privacy rules: “Nobody has to use the Internet”

[noir_lord]

Ask 1000 randomly chosen people 10 basic questions about a subject, work out the average score.

If a Congressperson/Senate member can't get a better score than the average of the 1000 on that subject then they don't get to vote on the legislation.

(I'm not serious..but sometimes I wonder).

I call it the "Yogi Test" (smarter than the average bear).

[nostromo → noir_lord]

Most regulations are already written by "experts."

Oil companies write oil regulations, bankers write banking regulations, etc. I don't think this is an ideal state.

[ouid → nostromo]

the problem there is not their expertise, but their interests.

you can insist on both.

[chadgeidel → noir_lord]

Sounds good. Until you try to define "1000 random people" and "10 basic questions". :-)

[Dylan16807 → chadgeidel]

The nice thing about a percentile score is that you have enormous leeway in how difficult the questions are.

And it's not that hard to find people that are mostly not experts on a subject.

[make3 → chadgeidel]

And who picks the answers, and who scores