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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 13 2012 @ 01:09 PM EDT |
I respectfully disagree:
The legal reasoning is unsound because it is based on an incorrect and easily
correctable understanding of the facts.
The bias towards extending laws (simply by reasoning about them) by analogy is
not unconscious at all. It's taught in law schools as a method of handling
situations where you don't have enough of an understanding of the facts, or
where the law is too ambiguous, to resolve the matter simply.
There's no need to assume dishonesty (though SOME may be dishonest about it) -
it's not necessarily dishonest to not really understand what you are doing
subconsciously, even if it's pointed out to you.
Wrt mammography - I guess I'd have to see the studies, articles, and statistics
before I could form a reasonable opinion on the honestly of radiologists. ;)[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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