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ANNOUNCEMENT | Monday, September 3, 2007
Martin & Quinn research featured in UK Financial Times
A recent news article in the UK Financial Times newspaper, entitled “Man vs. machine - How computers routed the experts” by Ian Ayres, featured the research of professors Andrew Martin and Kevin Quinn. The article describes how by using just a few variables concerning the politics of a case, it is possible to predict how US Supreme Court justices would vote. A detailed demonstration is citied in the article showing how their flow charts, outperformed the opinions of 83 legal experts – esteemed law professors, practitioners and pundits predicting 75 per cent of the court’s affirm/reverse results correctly, while the legal experts collectively got only 59.1 per cent right. View the article.
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