“Sign this petition if you want Michelle Obama to be president! If at least 100million people sign, you promise to vote for her. Otherwise, you’ll get a $1 gift card to Target.”
How would that promise be enforced?
If me and my friends didn’t want Michelle Obama to be President, wouldn’t it be smart of us to all sign up and take money from an Obama supporter and then vote for who we really want?
Oh right, I forgot, the $1 incentive gives people an ulterior motive for signing. :/ OK, so this is part of the answer to my original question—I had not noticed that fact and thus overestimated their usefulness.
“Sign this petition if you want Michelle Obama to be president! If at least 100million people sign, you promise to vote for her. Otherwise, you’ll get a $1 gift card to Target.”
How would that promise be enforced?
If me and my friends didn’t want Michelle Obama to be President, wouldn’t it be smart of us to all sign up and take money from an Obama supporter and then vote for who we really want?
Oh right, I forgot, the $1 incentive gives people an ulterior motive for signing. :/ OK, so this is part of the answer to my original question—I had not noticed that fact and thus overestimated their usefulness.