Re:Uber and Waymo Reach Settlement
by dragonwriter on Friday February 09, 2018 @03:44PM
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> lawyers always try to dismiss smart people from juries?
Lawyers don't “always try to dismiss smart people from juries”, or even try to identify smart people.
They do try to remove people that they expect will be more likely than average to be unfavorably inclined to their client or specific arguments, or that they expect to be a wildcard because they will be unable to restrict themselves to the courtroom presentation.
Neither of those, in general, is particularly correlated with intelligence.
Lawyers don't “always try to dismiss smart people from juries”, or even try to identify smart people.
They do try to remove people that they expect will be more likely than average to be unfavorably inclined to their client or specific arguments, or that they expect to be a wildcard because they will be unable to restrict themselves to the courtroom presentation.
Neither of those, in general, is particularly correlated with intelligence.