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1. I am very thankful that my small project to Professor Lyles’s work on “The Gatekeepers” has been added to this blog, the book has opened my eyes considerably and there are not enough ways to say thanks for this opportunity.

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   • In this reply, separated so that the thanksgiving can be separated from the file, there is the excel sheet file from the google sheet I used.

     The calculators are formatted such that one can change the point values (some put Strongly Agree as 5 and Strongly Disagree as 1), as well as change the percentages and population sizes.

     One of the most important lessons to me was this: in an ideal world where there were equal numbers of judges by race, gender, or party, their beliefs would equal out into a middle position.

     But in reality, there were more Republican, White, and Male judges back in the 1990’s during the book’s creation. Needless to say, representation really matters for the judge population despite what law school may say.

     Jericho Bernal – A Data Analysis on Prof. Lyles’s The Gatekeepers (1)

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