Is There a Bias in Sentencing?

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Critical race theory is the idea that there are systemic, built in biacese against a people of color. If he's in any way biased it races, then certainly this would account for why black suspects get a harsher sentence than white suspects. But do you mean to imply that even if we eliminated all racism in the judicial system, you could still get these differences from the noiseo? absolutely no.

Imagine that two doctors in the same city give different diagnoses to identical patients. Now imagine that the same doctor making a different decision depending on whether it is morning or afternoon, or Monday rather than Wednesday. This is an example of noise: variability in judgments that should be identical.

Shermer speaks with Nobel Prize winning psychologist and economist Daniel Kahneman about the detrimental effects of noise and what we can do to reduce both noise and bias, and make better decisions in: medicine, law, economic forecasting, forensic science, bail, child protection, strategy, performance reviews, and personnel selection.