Absence

I have been and will be on the road, so May has been a write-off in terms of blogging. I promise to have more and consistent content in June and onwards. In the meantime, my thanks to Gareth and Marney for the execllent comemntary.

Comments

[Marnie Tunay]

Moin, thank you for your kindnesses. I hope you have a safe and great journey. See you when you return...

[Gareth Morley]

Have a good trip, Moin. I think I speak for all of us when I say when you get back, we want commentary on the vice-regent's ingestion of raw seal heart.

[Marnie Tunay]

No, Gareth, you don't - and I don't.

[Gareth Morley]

Moin, I know you did some empirical work on the effect of a judge's gender and party of appointment on decision-making. What do you think of Judge Sotomayor's use of similar research? Has she confused statistical significance with the amount of variance explained, as alleged by our friend Pithlord: http://pithandsubstance.blogspot.com/2009/06/reading-judge-sotomayor-ii.html

[Moin Yahya]

Gareth

I think you are right.

Moin

[Gareth Morley]

Moin,

As someone who has done this kind of work, what do you think the implications are? Does the fact that women decide differently than men in some cases support affirmative action?

[Moin Yahya]

Garteh

That was one conclusion in our paper - if you value certain perspectives on certain cases, then that would be the logical conclusion. I know there is lot of work on this by Sunstein and others, and I haven't given a deep thought to the question.

Moin