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> > (To paraphrase Justice Ginsberg, law will be “fixed” when there are nine women on the Supreme Court.)

> Wait, what? Is this an argument that men are inherently unsuited to be Supreme Court Justices?

It just means that if gender is not considered, we should see an all women's court once every 2^9 = 512 time.

If the number never goes above the mean, gender must still be a factor.




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