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Juries are older than computing.
So is the abacus
No
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.
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"
I'll just throw this into the mix: the so-called "wisdom of crowds". I'm not sure if it really applies to juries. But I think the idea that a group of people will be smarter and less biased (or their biases will cancel each other out) is a common notion. It also dilutes the feeling of individual responsibility to some degree.
Juries are a way to say even the idiots believe X. There's enough people on juries that 1 or 2 will refuse to believe the facts and evidence staring them in the face, getting a unanimous verdict requires skill or having a very persuasive juror.
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