Definitely off by a few orders of magnitude.

Experts do know best in their field of expertise, that’s what makes them experts. In such a “Citizen Jury” if we lucked out and got a PhD in microbiology I would probably want that person on the FDA committee or whatever.

Excluding someone from the political process because they have an education is called Kakistocracy.

Kinda sounds similar to Jury Duty. I don’t know why you’d ban PhDs though.

What do you mean by lottery option?