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Comment author: gwern 06 August 2012 09:26:32PM 1 point [-]

My experience is that actual court data is notoriously unsearchable for a layperson, so I suspect median and mean sentences would be very difficult to calculate.

I agree; I spent a while doing that for modafinil, and I don't feel especially satisfied with the results.