Word: statistician
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recent New York case, for example, Attorney Michael Finkelstein produced evidence showing that a federal grand jury list included only 1.1 of every 10,000 voters in Harlem, compared with 62.6 of every 10,000 voters from the city's fashionable and predominantly white East Side. A statistician testified that the chances of obtaining that disparity in a random selection were smaller than the probability of a poker player being dealt 24 consecutive royal flushes in a fair game of five-card stud...