Are juries kind of a form of human-powered distributed computing or like a CPU or something? (lemmy.world)

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[-] treefrog@lemm.ee 16 points 13 hours ago

People aren't machines and don't weigh data the way machines do.

It's more like this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prospect_theory

Than this.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_choice_theory

[-] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Would that equate loss to a guilty person getting away over convicting an innocent person? Not sure if I'm expressing this great but I mean like people would be naturally and organically aligned with a reluctance to convict that is compatible with presumption of innocence and the proof beyond a reasonable doubt standard?

Like "better a 1000 guilty people walk than a single innocent be wrongly convicted"

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