general public

They can supply a helpful gut check on what the general public thinks about a future event and may reflect the wisdom of crowds.

Leading up to the Games, the Paris organizing committee set aside more than 1 million tickets at 24 euros each and ensured half of the tickets on sale to the general public would be 50 euros or less.

“Here are my latest masterworks! Though I fear they are too groundbreaking to find favor with the general public.”

However, after consulting some dusty books of art history she found in Lord Fredrick’s library, she concluded that it was a third-rate example of the Ominous Landscape school of painting, which had never quite caught on with critics or the general public and had been quickly superseded by other, less depressing styles.

There are many difficulties and pitfalls when you're trying to make an accurate programme about complicated science for the general public.