handoflixue comments on The Bias You Didn't Expect - Less Wrong

92 Post author: Psychohistorian 14 April 2011 04:20PM

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Comment author: handoflixue 15 April 2011 09:32:08PM 4 points [-]

I agree! Speaking as someone who was acquitted, the judge was unbiased; it was the arresting officer that had a problem ;)

Seriously, though, humans seem to seek to assign blame for the stress and trouble in their life. I think anyone who has to deal with something as stressful as the legal system is probably going to look for people to blame, and I'd assume that judges get quite a lot of this blame from the losing parties.