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                                             December 31, 2023


I have my doubts there's a lot
of point in close reading of                         SCATTER_THE_NOISE

  "Noise" (2021) by Kahneman,
  Sibony and Sunstein                                     SCATTER_THE_PAGES

Never the less, the book is working with
some interesting source material which is
probably worth learning more about.

Picking a few broad areas to follow
(not an exhaustive list):

       They allude to a wide literature
       discussing bias.  Is there any
       definitive study of this literature?

       In particular, I'm interested in
       evaluations of debiasing training.
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       The primary source material that they
       begin with is studies of courtroom
       judges:

          From the notes for Chapter 1, page 16:

          William Austin and Thomas A. Williams III,
          "A Survery of Judges' Responses to Simulated Legal Cases:
           Research Note on Sentencing Disparity,"
          _Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology_ 68 (1977): 306


          "Sentence Decisionmaking: The Logic of
          Sentence Decisions and the Extent and Sources
          of Sentence Disparity,"

          _Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology_ 72, no. 2 (1981)


          They remark:

               See Chapter 6 for a full discussion

          And also:

               See also Senate Report. 44

               But I don't know what they mean.
               There's no "Senate Report" footnoted for p. 44.




      Chapter 20, concerning "Forensic Evidence" has a long
      discussion of the acutal reliablity of interpreting
      crime scene fingerprints.

      Some of the notes point to popular write-ups:

          Michael Specter, "Do Fingerprints Lie?"
          _The New Yorker_  May 27, 2002.                  SPECTER_OF_DENIALISM


      Several notes point to the forensic literature, with
      studies looking at the way expert judgement can be
      corrupted by "contextual information".

      The book continues on to discuss DNA evidence
      interpretation (which somewhat naively I would've
      thought was resistant to these problems,
      probably just because it seems more sciencey.)








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