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
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
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