Award a job by selecting from the short-list by rolling dice? Award a place at a 'magnet' school by random selection? It's a crazy idea, but hey! It might work! Actually, it does work. For more than 30 years now, students have been selected for Medical School in Holland using a lottery. Every year the US government organises the Green Card citizenship lottery for entry into the USA. There are many more examples of lottery selection in current use On this website you can find out lots more about this highly democratic way of sharing out burdens and benefits. Click on one of the boxes above Let the dice, not frail and devious human judgement, decide my fate!
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