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Re:Why a Dutch court stopped high school students from swapp... by dnautics on Saturday May 19, 2018 @02:45PM (#17109129)
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.
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Re:Why a Dutch court stopped high school students from swapp... by nightcracker on Saturday May 19, 2018 @04:13PM (#17109539)
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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