Monday, April 09, 2007

Richard Dawkins - The Reason Juries Don’t Work

Richard Dawkins wrote some interesting observations on how our current system of Trial-by-Jury is flawed.

Trial by jury must be one of the most conspicuously bad good ideas anyone ever had. Its devisers can hardly be blamed. They lived before the principles of statistical sampling and experimental design had been worked out. They weren’t scientists. Let me explain using an analogy. And if, at the end, somebody objects to my argument on the grounds that humans aren’t herring gulls, I’ll have failed to get my point across.
Read the rest here.

(Via Cynical-C)

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