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sortition::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | casting lots, drawing lots |
| Type of | conclusion, decision, determination |
Examples of sortition
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Officials are volunteers elected to committees controlling these groups by sortition.
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It is a form of sortition which inherently has only two possible and equally likely outcomes.
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They used a method of sortition to draw candidates for public office.
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Regrettably, many people don't even know what sortition is.
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In the political domain, sometimes sortition is held as an example of what wisdom of the crowd would look like.
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In the sortition for provinciae, the two Spains were to be left out in odd-numbered years, and only four praetorships would be available in those years.
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Each tribe's delegation would be an executive of the boule for one-tenth of the year, so that ten groups of prytaneis served each year, a position granted by sortition.
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This is confirmed by the historical resort to having decisions made by officials selected at random, perhaps with a complex process of intermediate qualifying steps, called sortition.
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As the Elections were considered an oligarchic institution and most political offices were filled using sortition, also known as allotment, by which officeholders were chosen by lot.
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- Casting lots: making a chance decision by using lots (straws or pebbles etc.) that are thrown or drawn
- Sortition, also known as allotment or drawing lots, is an equal-chance method of selection by some form of lottery, and most commonly refers to selecting decision makers as a random sample from a larger preselected pool of candidates. ...
