Per stirpes receive one-third (all of "D"s one-third share). Under "per capita", the two-thirds remaining after "C" 's one-third share was taken would be divided equally among all three children of "B" and "D". (Two-thirds = six ninths) Each would receive two-ninths: "B1", "B2", and "D1" would all receive two-ninths. "Notes:" In many U.S. states, such as New York, a statute has modified the "per stirpes" approach and utilizes instead a per capita with representation approach (also known as modern American per stirpes). Under the per capita with representation approach, the number of branches is determined by reference to the generation nearest
One-third hypothesis One-third hypothesis The one-third hypothesis (OTH) is a sociodynamic idea—advanced by Hugo O. Engelmann—that asserts that a group's prominence increases as it approaches one-third of the population and diminishes when it exceeds or falls below one-third of the population. As the one-third hypothesis was stated originally by Hugo O. Engelmann in a letter to the "American Sociologist" in 1967: "...we would expect that the most persistent subgroups in any group would be those which approximate one-third or, by similar reasoning, a multiple of [i.e., a power of] one-third of the total group. Being the most persistent, these groups also should