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graemeptoday at 3:31 PM1 replyview on HN

I favour random selection. You end up with a perfectly representative parliament.


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parineumtoday at 6:10 PM

That's not universally true. It will, eventually, produce a comically unrepresentative group and the time it takes for that to happen will depend on the size of the pool of representatives compared to the population.

Fifty representatives randomly selected from a pool of a 300 million has a high chance of being supermajority non-representative.