&gt; <i>From what I understand, there&#x27;s a whole raft of really good, reproducible research on how to tease out what people mean from what they say</i><p>Having a game of telephone for a government... sounds like it would result in the sort of legislation that can be found in the OP. XD<p>&gt; <i>Based on this comment, you appear to be proposing that we dramatically increase the number of Federal representatives per citizen.</i><p>Not at all. I again invite you to read my other comments.