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Desert Fox
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Lawyers and Caveman Thinking

Postby Desert Fox » Fri Jan 09, 2015 5:43 pm

For such smart people, lawyers seem really prone to cavemanesque thinking. They draw trends from single data points or very few data points. It is ridiculousness.
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Re: Lawyers and Caveman Thinking

Postby bulinus » Fri Jan 09, 2015 6:16 pm

(Daniel Kahnemann nodding vigorously)
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Re: Lawyers and Caveman Thinking

Postby fats provolone » Fri Jan 09, 2015 7:53 pm

not to mention super conspiratorial
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Re: Lawyers and Caveman Thinking

Postby Desert Fox » Fri Jan 09, 2015 7:56 pm

My partner makes us pray to the gods who make OCR happen.
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Re: Lawyers and Caveman Thinking

Postby Single-Malt-Liquor » Fri Jan 09, 2015 7:58 pm

You're gonna have to show me some lawyer-caveman data. Otherwise, I'm going to call your thread ironic.
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Re: Lawyers and Caveman Thinking

Postby bulinus » Fri Jan 09, 2015 9:43 pm

http://www.bitterlawyer.com/wp-content/ ... visors.jpg
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Re: Lawyers and Caveman Thinking

Postby cookiejar1 » Sat Jan 10, 2015 1:23 am

nyc to 190?
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Re: Lawyers and Caveman Thinking

Postby Anonymous User » Sat Jan 10, 2015 11:07 am

cookiejar1 wrote:nyc to 190?


NYC to 190 confirmed!
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Re: Lawyers and Caveman Thinking

Postby mvp99 » Sat Jan 10, 2015 11:25 am

often they make conclusions without any data points..... I was actually very shocked to see that there are so many smart and religious students at my school (i know not lawyers yet).. Not that makes them dumb..
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Re: Lawyers and Caveman Thinking

Postby Cobretti » Sat Jan 10, 2015 1:15 pm

mvp99 wrote:often they make conclusions without any data points..... I was actually very shocked to see that there are so many smart and religious students at my school (i know not lawyers yet).. Not that makes them dumb..

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Re: Lawyers and Caveman Thinking

Postby mvp99 » Sat Jan 10, 2015 2:19 pm

Cobretti wrote:
mvp99 wrote:often they make conclusions without any data points..... I was actually very shocked to see that there are so many smart and religious students at my school (i know not lawyers yet).. Not that makes them dumb..

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