wnoise comments on The Amanda Knox Test: How an Hour on the Internet Beats a Year in the Courtroom - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ChristianKl 13 December 2009 05:36:17PM 1 point [-]

There something like a TV bias. In TV shows there often physical evidence at a crime scene that's needed for the narrative of the story. In real life there often isn't a lot of physical evidence.

That bias is strong enough to let some prospectors ask jurors about how much they watched shows like CSI to select jurors that don't believe that there has to be physical evidence.

To me it seems you are a victim of the bias that real life crime scenes look like TV crime scenes.

Comment author: wnoise 13 December 2009 05:51:12PM 5 points [-]

They did find lots of crime-scene evidence in this case -- pointing toward Guede.