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Word: statistician (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Bias in the Jury Box | 4/6/1970 | See Source »

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