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Breaking the Intelligence Curse

Public acceptance

15% of the meter

Would the public back this?

Whether a politician could campaign on it without losing, not whether it polls well in the abstract.

The scale

  1. 1Politically toxic
  2. 2Unpopular
  3. 3Contested
  4. 4Broadly popular
  5. 5Wins elections

Five is the good end on every criterion, so no row reads backwards.