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Less Knowledge, More Power: Uninformed Can Be Vital to Democracy, Study Finds
December 15, 2011
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A Princeton University-based research team reports in Science, that uninformed individuals--those with no prior knowledge or strong feelings on a situation's outcome--can actually be vital to achieving a democratic consensus. These individuals tend to side with and embolden the numerical majority and dilute the influence of powerful minority factions who would otherwise dominate everyone else.Full StorySource
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