ABSTRACT
In Chapter 2, we saw that simple random sampling, while fair in the aggregate, could result in the selection of a specific jury panel that is not representative of the population as a whole. For example, the jury that served in O.J. Simpson’s criminal trial consisted of ten African-Americans, one Caucasian, and one Hispanic, in contrast to the far more diversified population of Los Angeles from which it was chosen. As an alternative method of selection, Fukurai et al. [1991] propose the use of
stratified sampling
. Here is how this would work. Suppose the census shows that six of 12 residents of an area are
Caucasian, four are Hispanic, and two are African-American. Under the Fukari proposal, each jury would consist of six residents selected from the Caucasian pool, four from the Hispanic, and two from the African-American.
