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Comment author: jimrandomh 26 December 2015 07:59:31AM 2 points [-]

The Center For Applied Rationality (CFAR) checklist is a heuristic for assessing the admissibility of one's own testimony.

Did something get jumbled here? This isn't right at all.

We need not event the wheel, for legal theorists have researched this issue for years, while practitioners and courts have identified heuristics useful to lay people interested in this field.

Grammar aside, the standard legal process and courts are really bad at reaching true conclusions. Taking their practices as wisdom seems likely to be quite bad.

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