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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (112195)	5/29/2009 3:20:38 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) of 541647

I was not talking about any set of experiences. I was talking about Sotomayor's particular set of experiences that would enhance the quality of her judgement. I understood that. I just don't think that any set of experiences, including hers, is key to developing judgment. Experiences are simply input. I think you are mistaking input for process. How you process that and other input and come to a determination is more germane to quality judgment. If that judgment processor doesn't work well, say, for example, it lacks analytics or discipline, then no input of whatever quality will produce a quality judgment. To the extent that life experiences involve judgments made and to the extent that those judgments, whether quality judgments or mistakes are evaluated so as to hone one's judgment processor, they may contribute to quality judgments. But the experiences themselves are merely part of the input pool. They are just as likely to produce bias, limited thinking, and emotional baggage as anything helpful to the process of making judgments.

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