Cyan comments on You Be the Jury: Survey on a Current Event - Less Wrong

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Comment author: GreenRoot 10 December 2009 08:05:41PM 1 point [-]

For those of you who were not familiar with the case, which side's arguments did you read first?

Did it feel like this order influenced your reasoning or final judgment?

(I read pro-guilt ideas first, and feel now that this ordering contributed to my judgment that Knox and Sollecito are guilty. I wonder how conviction rates would change in the US if we let the defense go first, i.e. what are the relative influence values of the right to speak first vs. last?)

Comment author: Cyan 10 December 2009 08:45:31PM 1 point [-]

I read the pro-guilt side first. Whatever order effect there might have been was more than counteracted by the amount of crap I read through before getting to the actual evidence presented by the prosecution.