Bryan Caplan’s book “The Myth of the Rational Voter” explains that voters being merely ignorant or irrational is not a big issue. The uniformed voters will make random mistakes in voting that cancel each other out, and elections are still decided by the median informed voter. If that is true, younger voters’ greater ignorance (/higher intelligence) will cause them to contribute less (/more) to the pool of informed voters.
What we should really care about are biases, where people are consistently making mistakes in one direction, that are common across the population (or the age group in this case). Age might be a factor. Caplan proposes four biases: Anti-market bias, Anti-foreign bias, Make-work bias, Pessimistic bias.
Bryan Caplan’s book “The Myth of the Rational Voter” explains that voters being merely ignorant or irrational is not a big issue. The uniformed voters will make random mistakes in voting that cancel each other out, and elections are still decided by the median informed voter. If that is true, younger voters’ greater ignorance (/higher intelligence) will cause them to contribute less (/more) to the pool of informed voters.
What we should really care about are biases, where people are consistently making mistakes in one direction, that are common across the population (or the age group in this case). Age might be a factor. Caplan proposes four biases: Anti-market bias, Anti-foreign bias, Make-work bias, Pessimistic bias.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Myth_of_the_Rational_Voter