Tuesday, 10 September 2024

Lucy Letby and the chances of a really stupid jury

It's hard with this blog to keep up with the endless nonsense written on the internet but I was particularly impressed by this person who tried to argue that juries are unrepresentative of normal intelligence because they're selected at random... (the starter of the thread has done a runner and deleted the original post perhaps realising it's drivel)






...but, of course, IQ is a Gaussian distribution ...















...so if you believe in such things ... 12 people selected at random would most likely give you 8 people of average intelligence, 3 people of either higher or lower than normal functioning intelligence and 1 person who is either a genius or a total nincompoop.

According to this study less than 1 per cent of juries hang... and only 51.4 per cent find the defendant guilty by majority.... with a further 12.1 reaching a majority guilty verdict and 35.9 per cent acquitting...



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Food fight

People say the IDF are wrong to not let UN aid agencies distribute food aid in Gaza but they have to be careful that the aid isn't stole...

Least ignored nonsense this month...