Win a lottery, get a job at the state house, without owning favors to any campaign contributors (because you didn’t have any)! That’s the proposal of a physics/political science/economist team extending the principle of random jury selection to promotions in organizations and legislative elections. Crazy?

http://improbable.com/2011/03/…

Improbable Research – The Italian research team that received an Ig Nobel Prize in 2010 for demonstrating mathematically that organizations would become more efficient if they promoted people at random has extended its work (as well as gained some team members).