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My friend Diederik M. published a paper and I'll let you in on our legal system dirties little secret: it's bias
June 11, 20261 minute
My friend Diederik M. published a paper and I'll let you in on our legal system dirties little secret: it's bias
He studied which arguments win cases and while findings are already disturbing -the little guy rarely wins- the more alarming finding is that we do not have access to all data.
One might argue: Dutch 🇳🇱 are just bias but in fairness, no country is able to release all cases.
Even if we anonymize cases before release - they might elect to never do it.
Remember, France 🇫🇷 will jail you for 7 years if you do sentiment analysis on judges.
But that's not the real reason for not releasing. It's actually more mundane: we -humans- are inconsistent and irrational which shows up in our judicial decisions.
Worse, lawyers like it that way too 💰
