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The Interpretation of Murder

This novel delves into the minds of both the perpetrator and the detective, offering a gripping narrative that intertwines the complexities of human behavior with the legal system. more

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Jed Rubenfeld
Jed Rubenfeld

Jed Rubenfeld is a renowned law professor, born in 1959. He has extensive research and teaching experience in the field of law, particularly in constitutional and criminal law. more

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“it seems that once again people engage in a search for evidence that is biased toward confirmation. Asked to assess the similarity of two entities, people pay more attention to the ways in which they are similar than to the ways in which they differ. Asked to assess dissimilarity, they become more concerned with differences than with similarities. In other words, when testing a hypothesis of similarity, people look for evidence of similarity rather than dissimilarity, and when testing a hypothesis of dissimilarity, they do the opposite. The relationship one perceives between two entities, then, can vary with the precise form of the question that is asked”

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Book:How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life
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