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		dnautics on May 19, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why a Dutch court stopped high school students fro... It's because having distributed lotteries result in a non stable system. This was resolved by having a single lottery. It's totally crazy that they didn't do it from the start.

orlp on May 19, 2018 [–]

If you read the results (http://www.moniquedehaan.nl/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/schoo...) the choice makes a lot of sense.

Look at figure 4: https://i.imgur.com/TUInR0Q.png

The multiple lottery system, while resulting in less people with their #1 pick, results in a vastly less people not getting in their top 3 picks.

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