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To: carranza2 who wrote (12805)	2/20/2006 3:11:25 PM
From: wonk	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541489

What we know as hard facts is simply not enough to say that the court is efficient or inefficient…. We have to be more precise in our definition of terms. The distinction you are highlighting is the difference between How efficiently one unit of production processes workload… As compared to … The maximally efficient number of units of production to process the workload in a timely (whatever the criteria is for timely) fashion. The inferred statistics I generated suggest that the Judges – the units of production - in the aggregate are highly efficient in processing applications. This statistic would be even more pronounced if done on a standard hours/year basis. Hence, if the individual units are efficient the Court is efficient. However, what you describing is the problem solved by queuing theory. Take the Grocery Store example. A store may process – on average - one customer per minute through a checkout line. But at any one time, if there are an insufficient number of checkout clerks, the line may be ten deep. Obviously, that is not an optimal solution for customer satisfaction. Hence, to your point about delays. It’s not a function – from what I can tell – of being inefficient about processing applications. If – for the sake of argument – there are delays then you need more on-call resources to process backload or deal with “lumpy” delivering of applications, no different that having more check-out clerks on duty between 4-8 pm (optimal grocery shopping time for two-wage households, or on Saturday morning. ww