Or was it carried out largely to convey a sense of fairness in an essentially stochastic context where the stakes happened to be very serious? (2) Should attention have been given to twins, triplets, and other siblings to avoid multiple impacts on a given family? (3) Were those born on February 29 treated unfairly in the 1970 lottery? (4) The alphabetic data for 1970 seem, to the naked eye, to hav