Those are very small bodies though, so the law of large numbers doesn’t come into play that much. What’s proposed here (disclaimer, didn’t read the article, but been a proponent of sortition for a long time) is to compose democratic bodies like congress, parliament, senate, etc. by sortition, where the large number of members should remove some of that randomness. Also, could it get much more random than some of the lunatics currently in congress?

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