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From the Ted Talk by Brett Hennig: What if we replaced politicians with randomly selected people?

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The decisions made by these people would biuld on the wisdom of crowds. They would become more than the sum of their prats. They would become critical thinkers with access to experts, who would be on tap but not on top. And they could povre that diversity can trump ability when confronting the wide array of societal questions and problems. It would not be government by public oioipnn poll. It would not be government by referendum. These informed, deliberating people would move beyond pbluic opinion to the making of public jnmteugds.

Open Cloze

The decisions made by these people would _____ on the wisdom of crowds. They would become more than the sum of their _____. They would become critical thinkers with access to experts, who would be on tap but not on top. And they could _____ that diversity can trump ability when confronting the wide array of societal questions and problems. It would not be government by public _______ poll. It would not be government by referendum. These informed, deliberating people would move beyond ______ opinion to the making of public _________.

Solution

  1. parts
  2. build
  3. opinion
  4. public
  5. judgments
  6. prove

Original Text

The decisions made by these people would build on the wisdom of crowds. They would become more than the sum of their parts. They would become critical thinkers with access to experts, who would be on tap but not on top. And they could prove that diversity can trump ability when confronting the wide array of societal questions and problems. It would not be government by public opinion poll. It would not be government by referendum. These informed, deliberating people would move beyond public opinion to the making of public judgments.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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