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Re:Physical attractiveness bias in the legal system (2017) by thephyber on Monday August 03, 2020 @09:42PM (#24045634)
The conversion of {speech, body language} to {text, nothing} is pretty severe when you're on a jury trying to establish if the person on the stand is credible.
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Re:Physical attractiveness bias in the legal system (2017) by MaximumYComb on Monday August 03, 2020 @11:48PM (#24046360)
In this case being attractive makes you more credible so I see this as a feature.
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Re:Physical attractiveness bias in the legal system (2017) by schemy on Monday August 03, 2020 @09:47PM (#24045664)
I have a dream, that one day I will live in a country where peoples credibility will be decided by the strengths of their argument and not the sound of their accent.
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Re:Physical attractiveness bias in the legal system (2017) by VoiceOfWisdom on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @12:14AM (#24046516)
Yes, lets take the already limited bandwidth of conversation and hack out more parts of it.
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Re:Physical attractiveness bias in the legal system (2017) by cma on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @01:51AM (#24047045)
Why not test and see if it leads to better outcomes.
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