Word: randomed
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Some have speculated that what may prove to be an unsatisfactory compromise will ultimately end in completely random assignments. Jewett and other administrators have maintained in the past that they would favor a completely random system...
...little disturbed by the way this modest experiment has now become a way of talking about total random assignments. I would be infuriated if I was told that I had to go random," said Eliot House Master Alan E. Heimert...
Others disagree about their intentions for the plan. "This was in no way originally seen as a dry run for a total random system," said Davis...
...Random assignments have consistently increased over the past four years, rising from 6.9 percent randomly assigned in 1985 to 11.9 percent last year, according to statistics from the Housing Office...
Jewett has maintained that the changes could result in random assignments increasing 10 to 15 percent from last year, but administrators in the Housing Office and in the Office of Instructional Research and Evaluation were unwilling to estimate how much of an effect the new system might have...