An innovative polling model can move us past political polarization
The Future of Everything
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Professor jim fishkin has developed methods for groups of people to come together and make decisions even when they have very different backgrounds, world views, life experience and preconceptions. It's the future of deliberative democracy. The people who deliberated became much more engaged citizens. They kept getting more knowledgeable about the campaign. They had a greater sense of efficacyt they had views worth listening to. People use the internet to create echo chambers where they only see and hear opinions that they already agree with. And so when people deliberate together in randomly selected groups, let's say of 500, but then in small groups of ten, they open up and listen to each other over a period of time.
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