What if we chose councilors from a pool at random? To get into the pool, you’d have to take some training and pass a series of exams. Training consists of how to write laws, how to read data and adapt policy to data, communication, consensus building, etc. People serve short stints on the council as an act of service.
>What if we chose councilors from a pool at random?
"I am obliged to confess I should sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University."
—William F. Buckley, Jr., 1963 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nf_bu-kBr4 )
I've long maintained most people are too easily manipulated and pandered to, and have too poor of an understanding of policy to vote. It's too bad poll tests have a bad history in the US.