Comments on: “Math on Trial: How Numbers Get Used and Abused in the Courtroom” https://www.overlawyered.com/2013/04/math-trial-how-numbers-get-used-abused-courtroom/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Sat, 27 Apr 2013 18:41:19 +0000 hourly 1 By: A6 https://www.overlawyered.com/2013/04/math-trial-how-numbers-get-used-abused-courtroom/comment-page-1/#comment-209895 Sat, 27 Apr 2013 18:41:19 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=37773#comment-209895 This is not even to touch on statistics as it relates to discrimination law, which I believe I read about in an essay by Thomas Sowell. In effect, our law makes statistical fluctuations illegal–in one direction only, of course.

]]> By: Larry White https://www.overlawyered.com/2013/04/math-trial-how-numbers-get-used-abused-courtroom/comment-page-1/#comment-209689 Fri, 26 Apr 2013 14:01:23 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=37773#comment-209689 Math has no place in court rooms…the havens of opinion, demagoguery and lies. Not cynical, factual. Defense attorneys often have no choice in the matter…facts, the truth and math will often put their client away!

Numbers, now you’re talk’n. Schneps and Colmez know the difference but juries often do not.

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