Ahmed Teleb makes the wisdom-by-diversity argument against elections and more specifically against first-past-the-post systems:
We’ve all heard of the “wisdom of crowds” especially after James Surowiecki’s 2004 best-selling book by that name and Scott Page’s 2007 “The Difference.” […]
So why does the US Congress, a crowd of 535, seem so remarkably un-wise?
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