Hi, On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 8:00 AM Philip Hands <p...@hands.com> wrote: > > I don't see how encouraging people to vote who lack either an opinion on > the subject in hand, or the motivation to vote, is supposed to improve > the outcome.
Yeah, I think it's based on mathematics. On average, higher turnout reduces the sampling error: "The error (or disturbance) of an observed value is the deviation of the observed value from the (unobservable) true value of a quantity of interest." [1] Kind regards Felix Lechner [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Errors_and_residuals
