From: Karen Rand Smigrodzki (karen@smigrodzki.org)
Date: Mon Jun 30 2003 - 12:48:12 MDT
Any of you mathophiles read the June 24th issue of the Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences? An article by Lawrence Sirovich entitled "A
pattern analysis of the second Rehnquist US Supreme Court" concludes that
our Supreme Court behaves as if it were made up of 4.68 "ideal" justices;
that is, they rule as if they were completely independent. Sirovich uses the
Shannon measure of information content.
I think the abstract is viewable at www.pnas.org for free.
--karen
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