Are humans capable of handling democracy?

[Papewaio]

Democracy should work from small to big. People are smart enough to know what is best for their direct surroundings, and up and up and up we go. It's the best system because it has a killswitch, elections.

What he said.

Recently we did a study at my university. some thousand people voting afterwards got to vote again, but this time they didnt vote for a party, instead they had to choose between the different partys agendas without being told which was which.

Now, about 30% didnt cast the same vote! This means that many people votes for something because their parents do, out of habbit, or whatever.

Your data pool is rather limited, 1000 people tested at a vote. Not really enough data to make a conclusion about democracies of various sorts around the world. Even given that the conclusion is wrong. Somehow you take that 30% voting for another party means that democracy is flawed... surely 70% voted for the same party... so surely the 70% trumps the 30%... unless of course you have a pre-determined conclusion and choose to fit the data to your liking.

So a) Not enough trials.
b) The only test trial listed contradicts your conclusions.

Hence not enough evidence to support that humans are not capaple of handling democracy based on one university voting session. BTW did this one have lots of alcohol to get students to vote?...

Anyhow multiple 'dumb' agents working in cooperation will out do a single expert agent... the people as a group have a larger intelligence then then the people as individuals... democracy isn't only safer it's smarter.