The Luck of the Draw: The Role of Lotteries in Decision Making by Peter Stone
English | 2011 | ISBN: 0199756104 | 208 pages | PDF | 1 MB
From the earliest times, people have used lotteries to make decisions–by drawing straws, tossing coins, picking names out of hats, and so on. We use lotteries to place citizens on juries, draft men into armies, assign students to schools, and even on very rare occasions, select lifeboat survivors to be eaten.