Which of the Following Are Supported by the Groundbreaking Extensive

question 44

Multiple Choice

Which of the following are supported by the groundbreaking extensive survey by Harry Kalven and Hans Zeisel who compared trial outcomes of judges and juries?

• A)In criminal trials, the judges reported that their verdict would have been unlike the jury's actual verdict in 75% of the cases.
• B)The level of agreement between the jury and the judge was also low in civil trial.
• C)Judges reported that their verdict would have favored the side favored by the jury in 78% of the civil suits.
• D)Among the 25% of the criminal cases in which there was disagreement, nearly half resulted in hung juries.

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Definitions:

Confidence interval

A range of values, derived from sample statistics, that is likely to contain the value of an unknown population parameter, with a certain degree of confidence.

Population mean

The average value of a characteristic within an entire population.

Population standard deviation

A measure of the dispersion or variability within a total population.

Sample median

The midpoint value of a sample data set, where half the numbers are above the median and half are below.