About Juries and the assumption of Presented Information
Peter Donnelly Informs people about the amount of trust people put into experts. He is a statistician expressing how, in the court system, experts present people with statistical evaluations and test results that can be taken as a guarantee instead of a likelihood. When those involved in the decision making system, such as jurors, they use high probabilities as indisputable evidence. In the case of the 12 angry men they assumed that because there was a high probability that a street kid, with an interesting knife, and some witnesses could commit the murder that he did. It wasn't until discussing the actual likelihood of each part that they could determine he didn't do it.
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