Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Perhaps it's easier to balance out biases with 12 people than with 1 or 3?

  That assumes that the probability of being biased to one side or the
other is approximately the same. However, this is not always the case.
There are, for instance, certain crimes which touch great taboos in
current society, and the vast majority of people will be biased against
anyone who is accused of breaking those taboos.

  (Well, this in fact has been so for as long as humans have existed.
Only the taboos have changed, but people's attitude haven't.)

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                                                          - Warp

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