distributional redundancy

in psychological aesthetics, the development of uncertainty in an artistic pattern by making some elements occur more frequently than others. Distributional redundancy is one of two kinds of internal restraint in pattern variation, the other being correlational redundancy, in which certain combinations of elements are made to occur more frequently than others.

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January 31st 2025

Batson v. Kentucky

a legal case resulting in a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that it is unconstitutional to exercise peremptory challenges during voir dire for the purpose of removing jurors on account of their race.