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Six: Jennifer Doleac on criminal justice reform

Effective Altruism: Ten Global Problems – 80000 Hours

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Is It Possible That People Are Overestimating Probabilities?

There's some sort of threshold or tipping point in terms of, it's a high enough probability of getting caught that i just feel like it's like besticaleas a certainty. And so i'm just oing to change my behavior. I tink that's also a pos here. There's this whole of this whole issue f like, how accurate are their perceptions of the likelihood of getting caught, right? It seems like a cound of it siking them out. Thei guess they, they see that they gon into a d and a data base, and maybe they, they think that they just, like, far more likely to be to recort. Some fraction they reconsidering

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