> >I like the toin coss idea because it would be incredibly > >entertaining. "Yann Le Du <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" wrote: > Admit it : your real name is Luke Rhinehart ;-) What I propose is not a decision-making technique as much as a sampling one. Since the vote has not yielded a statistically signficant result, we can be confident that the probabilistic uniformity of the coin toss is *representative*. It would be a cool experiment though, to randomly choose among candidates who happen to make it onto the ballot. I'm sure somebody on this mailing list has those 8- and 12-sided Dungeons and Dragons dice. "Pierre Lemieux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" wrote: > Which brings back an old idea. If "we" really wanted to have representative > representatives, they could be chosen randomly. Yes, but how would you figure out that they're any good for the job? Off the top of my head, the biggest benefit of campaigns and elections is that they provide opportunities for candidates to exhibit competence, vision and leadership through exposure to those they would deign to represent and lead. Just because this year was a presidential Dust Bowl, don't give up farming! Sincerely, Sourav Mandal ------------------------------------------------------------ Sourav K. Mandal [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ikaran.com/Sourav.Mandal/ "In enforcing a truth we need severity rather than efflorescence of language. We must be simple, precise, terse." -- Edgar Allan Poe, "The Poetic Principle"
