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

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Comment author: lackofcheese 09 October 2010 12:45:07PM *  1 point [-]

I had much the same experience as Sinai. Personally, though, I didn't bother to try this test after having already been biased by Eliezer's opinion on the matter.

Also, I feel that the uselessness of the linked pro-guilt site hurts the overall experiment too much. I know it wasn't translated at the time, but using the Massei report as Sinai did makes the test much more effective.

Comment author: komponisto 11 October 2010 07:20:08PM *  0 points [-]

I know it wasn't translated at the time, but using the Massei report as Sinai did makes the test much more effective.

It's not just that it hadn't been translated; it hadn't even been written!

It came out in March, around the same time as Bruce Fisher's excellent Injustice in Perugia site went up. If I were proposing this experiment today, those would be the sources I would use (i.e. the Massei-Cristiani report for pro-guilt, and IIP, including the appeal summaries, for pro-innocence).

Believe it or not, True Justice for Meredith Kercher represented about the highest quality pro-guilt advocacy available at the time of this post.