Associate Professor Anthony Fowler Discusses "The Negative Effect Fallacy"

Harris Public Policy Associate Professor Anthony Fowler wrote a guest post on the Election Law Blog discussing his new research on the habitual rejection of quantitative evidence by judges in the United States.

"The Supreme Court has a mixed track record when it comes to quantitative evidence, and that record was further blemished earlier this month, during oral arguments for Gill v. Whitford, when Chief Justice John Roberts dismissed a quantitative metric as “sociological gobbledygook” without providing further explanation. This kind of convenient but vacuous argument is, unfortunately, a regular tactic for some of the justices."

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