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Re:Trial of programmer accused in CIA leak ends in hung jury by monadic2 on Monday March 09, 2020 @08:54PM (#22531651)
Is “cui bono” at odds with a disinterested analysis of the evidence?
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Re:Trial of programmer accused in CIA leak ends in hung jury by meowface on Monday March 09, 2020 @09:13PM (#22531772)
Not at all, but for situations like these, it seems like a very high percentage of the time, it stops at "cui bono" and skips the analysis part.
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Re:Trial of programmer accused in CIA leak ends in hung jury by mindslight on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @01:20PM (#22537369)
Actually, stopping at "cui bono" would be a great thing. The common pathology is that people start with the legitimate idea of who has benefited, get hung up on unsupported specifics, and end up creating straw men that then get used to discourage talking about the obvious incentives.
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Re:Trial of programmer accused in CIA leak ends in hung jury by meowface on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @03:11PM (#22538539)
No, the common pathology is that they stop at cui bono and come to conclusions about facts based only on incentives instead of empirical data and evidence.
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