Re: lotteries and elections

2004-09-01 Thread Wei Dai
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 08:25:16PM -0500, Jeffrey Rous wrote: When people ask me why I vote, my standard answer is because I can. Voting simply reminds me that we have something special going here in the free world. I do a decent job of learning about the candidates and issues not because I

Re: lotteries and elections

2004-09-01 Thread Wei Dai
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 07:50:08PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been discussing with my undergradute students the rationality of voting. What about the possibility that many people do not deal well with with small probabilities, and mistakenly think that their votes matter? Why have

Re: lotteries and elections

2004-09-01 Thread Xianhang Zhang
Wei Dai wrote: On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 08:25:16PM -0500, Jeffrey Rous wrote: When people ask me why I vote, my standard answer is because I can. Voting simply reminds me that we have something special going here in the free world. I do a decent job of learning about the candidates and issues