More voters make a better decision only if the average voter is more likely right than wrong; if not, more voters make it worse. That is Condorcet's 1785 result as Malone states it, and it means voting amplifies competence rather than creating it.

Evidence 2 passages

• groundsSuperminds (audiobook machine transcript), Thomas W. Malone

  In other words, elections lead to good outcomes only if the average voters have both the knowledge and the motivation to vote wisely.

• groundsSuperminds (audiobook machine transcript), Thomas W. Malone

  But if the average voter is more likely than not to vote for a bad outcome, then the more voters there are, the more likely it is that the outcome of the election will be bad.

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