This was the paper, for referencehttps://www.pnas.org/content/108/17/6889 …
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There was a Israeli study a few years ago that found that judges are 2 to 6 times more likely to grant parole after lunch than right before. This brings to mind the Oscar Wilde quote, "after a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations" (a Thanksgiving classic)
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This is scary. How many lives depend on someone’s satiated state.
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I believe this was not correct as the order they heard cases was not random.
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That fact was used in Thinking: fast and slow by Kahneman. Alas, I don’t remember what for
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They wanted to point out that we’re not as rational as we think we are and that our thinking is often influenced by our biases and other factors such as hunger :/
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Anyone keen on trial by machine learning?
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I suppose there might be other factors that could affect the decision. Like if the dinner is cold or doesn’t taste that well, the likelihood of granting parole will likely diminish. I’m not even talking about our inherent biases that have an enormous impact on our thinking.
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There was an analysis that argued perhaps the conclusion of the surprising paper was wrong:https://mindhacks.com/2016/12/08/rational-judges-not-extraneous-factors-in-decisions/ …
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