judgin'

alot of judgements that are made by judges are controversial;  some say you find the right judge, and you can have whatever ruling you desire.

how about we replace the judge with some crowdsourcing.  take the facts of the case, and devise them into a test.  present the facts on a website as they are to the judge, and allow potential "judges" to take the test.  if they pass, proving understanding of the case, then they can submit their judgement.

multiple judgements can be statistically combined to arrive at a final judgement.  of course these "judges" would have to have equal familiarity with case law to make comparable judgements.  the system could be applied to non-technical judgements.. or only basic, straight-forward questions can be asked.

this could work well for something like patent processing.

now that i think about it, crowd-sourcing has so many applications.  it seems ripe for an open architecture to be developed for specific applications to build on.  wonder if such a thing already exists.