TimS comments on Hearsay, Double Hearsay, and Bayesian Updates - Less Wrong

47 Post author: Mass_Driver 16 February 2012 10:31PM

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Comment author: TimS 17 February 2012 09:25:48PM 2 points [-]

I suspect the low hanging fruit in improving the legal system is related to evaluating witness credibility and eyewitness accuracy. Judges talk all the time about how the factfinder was present when a witness testified and was in a unique position to evaluate the credibility of a witness' testimony. But the evidence is pretty strong that people are terrible at those kinds of judgments and don't realize how bad they are at them.