We seem to have designed our governance system to require those Rolls Royce minds and then staffed it with Trabants, which isn’t we feel quite the right way around to be doing it. We’d prefer something so simple that even a papier mache two-stroke could manage it then stick the bright people into those positions.
Nice piece. You could probably expand that into a book. I asked ChatGPT for a title and subtitle, but it came up with really bland ideas like “The Complexity Bias: How Cognitive Biases Affect Lawmaking and Law Enforcement”.
It isn’t a volume measure because tall people are not wider than short in the same proportion.
It’s a measure, that is all, of some use as an average in medicine. It’s application as “one size fits all” individual target or definition of goodness is, as so many such measures of some use as averages in medicine, fundamentally flawed.