From the Department of ... "Duh!"

The Daily Dish reports on a study that concludes:

If anything, this result simply reiterates how important it is to choose who we emulate. If we pick poorly (like the crowds who learned about a random earlier guess), our decisions are worse. If we pick well (like the ones who learned about the best previous guess), we fare better. ... Maybe the real trick to exploiting the wisdom of the crowd is to recognise the most knowledgeable individuals within it.

Maybe this is why some of us would like our media to remain straight-faced and report relevant facts*, rather than telling us -- again and again and again -- who has the prettiest hairdo (boys included! Young Miss Hillary is currently win-ning, purchasing the early Lindsey Lohan look, it seems...) or who mistakenly traveled with a pet atop the station wagon on the family vacation many many years ago...

Let's wind up with the best candidate in there, eh? The one who will do the best job in the end, as measured by track record. Not the one who was most popular and got himself elected editor of Law Review, or who stood tall in his hat and boots, or bedded the most lovely ladies -- behind the scenes, of course.
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* Have your fun when the work is done?

ADDED:
I think Hillary should have just stopped here, for example, -- mature and competent enough, no need to keep turning back those hands of time -- and started concentrating on her foreign policy job, instead of spending all those months working on her "look". But what do I know?

Despite the paltry job efforts she's turned in thus far, she still rates popularly in all the latest polls, dontchaknow... And for a girl today, polling and popularity matter more, obviously, than promoting peace or prepping the world for teh economic fallout to come... You Go Girl! Lindsey had to grow up, she's got nothing on you!.