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How would you improve it?
I don't know. I also don't know how I would improve the car I'm driving, that doesn't mean I don't know it is faulty.
And how is a peer-reviewed study by a non-biased source inferior to your speculation?
It isn't, but I'm not pretending that my speculation is an authoritative source. The "peer-reviewed study" is based on methodology which is practically a joke.
Their measures of rational decision making in judges
the number of published opinions
the number of citations from outside the state (that is, nonprecedent driven citations) to majority opinions
open disagreements (dissents) with those from the same political party background (our measure of judicial independence).....