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From: iwen
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Date: 1/17/2011 4:40:08 PM
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I voted the first time but completely forgot about the second time.

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To: iwen
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Date: 1/17/2011 5:56:54 PM
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I voted but like everyone felt like there was no point.

The basic formula for determining whether someone will vote is

PB + D > C

Here, P is the probability that an individual's vote will affect the outcome of an election, and B is the perceived benefit that would be received if that person's favored political party or candidate were elected. D originally stood for democracy or civic duty, but today represents any social or personal gratification an individual gets from voting. C is the time, effort, and financial cost involved in voting. Since P is virtually zero in most elections, PB is also near zero, and D is thus the most important element in motivating people to vote. For a person to vote, these factors must outweigh C.


In this election while C was low, P = 0, B = 0 and D is very little.

But well done to the Winner!

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Date: 1/17/2011 6:03:00 PM
Koopasaurus
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so what does that mean?
democracy doesnt work? lol

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Date: 1/17/2011 6:41:02 PM
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Democarcy works precicely because of this. If there is someone really bad and it will make a big difference to you to get rid of them then there will be a high voter turnout. Democracy doesn't always get the best people in but it usually keeps the worst people out.

From: iwen

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Date: 1/17/2011 6:45:26 PM
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Maths, Equations and Politics...

Please stop!

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Date: 1/17/2011 6:56:19 PM
Koopasaurus
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at least it wasn't philosophy session =P

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171091.14 in reply to 171091.13
Date: 1/17/2011 7:11:40 PM
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Arts shouldn't be a uni course.

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Date: 1/17/2011 7:21:12 PM
Koopasaurus
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I know lots of people who did a B.Arts and came out very successful.

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Date: 1/17/2011 7:23:02 PM
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You don't even need to go to uni to be successful. But the majority of subjects offered in Arts degrees are trash.

<- International Management / Marketing degree.

From: yodabig

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171091.17 in reply to 171091.16
Date: 1/17/2011 8:02:49 PM
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Hey don't knock funny subjects as part of an Arts degree. I did philosophy, classical civilisations and anthropology as part of mine but the best part...

I enrolled in Woman's Studies as part of my Scoiology Major (this is 100% true) because I figured there would be a lot of hot women doing it. There were! The class was all hot women and I was the only guy. The bad part was that they all hated men. By the end of the subject I did too! I even got offered a masters in Womens Studies lol! But as part of the enrolment procedure you had to have your nuts removed.

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Date: 1/17/2011 8:25:44 PM
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Haha! Very funny, I had a friend who took Women's studies. So you didn't end up getting any strange man-hating relations out of it?

My one sojourn into arts was first year archaeology when I was in 4th year. Had an elective to fill. All the others were Sci, Biol, Zool etc. But I regret now not doing a double degree and doing philosopy, geog, mandarin.

Uni was awesome though.

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