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Today, sortition is commonly used to select prospective jurors in [[common law (legal system)|common law]] systems and is sometimes used in forming [[citizens' assembly|citizen groups with political advisory power]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Fishkin|first1=James|title=When the People Speak: Deliberative Democracy & Public Consultation|url=https://archive.org/details/whenpeoplespeakd00fish_1|url-access=registration|date=2009|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford|isbn=978-0199604432}}</ref>
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Sortition can be combined with [[w:stratified sampling]] to reduce its randomness. While one may suspect that stratifying by known categories would lead to worse representation of unknown categories, it can be shown that even in the worst case, variance only increases by a small factor, and stratified sampling often significantly reduces variance.<ref name="Benadè Gölz Procaccia 2019 p. ">{{cite conference | last=Benadè | first=Gerdus | last2=Gölz | first2=Paul | last3=Procaccia | first3=Ariel D. | title=No Stratification Without Representation | publisher=ACM | publication-place=New York, NY, USA | date=2019-06-17 | doi=10.1145/3328526.3329578 | url=https://paulgoelz.de/papers/sortition.pdf}}</ref>
== References ==
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[[Category:Forms of assembly formation]]
[[Category:Randomness]]
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