Re: Math & Court rulings

From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Jun 30 2003 - 22:01:05 MDT

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    --- Karen Rand Smigrodzki <karen@smigrodzki.org> wrote:
    >
    > 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.

    Does this mean that so long as there are more than 4.5 ideal justices
    that individual liberties are increasing??? If not, what DOES it mean?

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