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Very interestingly, random selection was a key part of how democracy was done in ancient Athens.
But more interesting than the ancient use of random selection is its modern resurgence.
The rediscovery of the legitimacy of random selection in politics has become so common lately, that there's simply too many examples to talk about.
They've tried things like choosing something at random or applying what's called the "first-in, first-out principle," which means removing the item which has been in the memory for the longest.
That Earth would likely warm in the 1980's, and warming would exceed the noise level of random weather by the end of the century.
We talked to as many random people as we could and collected hundreds of personal stories about race, stories that revealed how racial injustice is a nationwide epidemic that we ourselves spread and now can't seem to recognize or get rid of.
But in a more objective sense, it's really just this random jumble of letters that I've confined to the single possibility of making my name.
So this is the 50 percent line, that's the random expectation.
Our participants would carry electronic pagers for a week at a time, and we'd page them throughout the day and evenings at random times.
In Kenya, in Zambia, and a bunch of countries, there's been testing in random samples of the population.
So it turns out, if you use this technique, actually your estimates of prevalence are very close to what we get from testing random samples in the population, but they're very, very different than what UNAIDS tells us the prevalences are.
We merely have a collection of random individual insights without an overall model.
They were memorizing hundreds of random numbers, looking at them just once.
He used a similar technique to memorize the precise order of 4,140 random binary digits in half an hour.
For some random reason, I can't imagine, something about cheerleaders turned up in my inbox.
But, if he instead acted out of a delusional fantasy, if he was motivated by some random mental illness, he's in a completely different category.
He's the random state of nature we emerged from.
Ever since I was a kid, I've had massive collections of random stuff, everything from bizarre hot sauces from all around the world to insects that I've captured and put in jars.
I'm going to give you one of these two teas, and keep in mind, I'm going to pick one of these two teas at random for you.
And, systemically, what we will show, across a series of studies, is that you, the passengers, even though the tea was picked for you at random, will end up solving more puzzles than you, the drivers.
And I think that a lot of times, that's what the comment sections really are, it's really a way to get your anger at the world out on random profiles of strangers, pretty much.
We don't, or I hope we don't, form friendships at random on Facebook.
Basically, I send people signals at random points throughout the day, and then I ask them a bunch of questions about their moment-to-moment experience at the instant just before the signal.
The key, to my Arab brothers and sisters, is to throw in random good words to put people at ease as you're walking down the aisle.
In fact, most of them were taken by random tourists.
Initially, it does some random motion, and then it tries to figure out what it might look like.
It was a random encounter when I was young, and since then, I've often wondered about the amazing success of physics in describing the reality we wake up in every day.
So after all of our shows, we would sign autographs and hug fans and hang out and talk to people, and we made an art out of asking people to help us and join us, and I would track down local musicians and artists and they would set up outside of our shows, and they would pass the hat, and then they would come in and join us onstage, so we had this rotating smorgasbord of weird, random circus guests.
And I love this kind of random closeness, which is lucky, because I do a lot of couchsurfing.
We took a sheet of paper with random letters, and we asked people to find pairs of letters that were identical next to each other.
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