Why wouldn’t surgeons or pilots have the same problem?
The paper is sensational because of the implications it has for the social justice causes certain people are obsessed about.
>Why wouldn’t surgeons or pilots have the same problem?
Firstly, this is such an incredibly naive view of the world, especially in regards to the type of professionals that proliferate the legal system.
Past that, surgeons and pilots DO have these issues. The airline industry has religious standards and procedures for how pilots prepare and "rate" themselves before a flight mainly due to how visible egregious pilot errors typically are; in the case of surgeons the insurance company does it best to sweep things under the rug.
Pilots are supposed to be well rested, but then you have incidents like Northwest Airlines Flight 188[1], and pilots admitting they fall asleep more than you would imagine[2].
It's hard to gather data on surgeon-specific incidents since the medical industry does its very best to sweep things under the rug, but it's estimated that 400,000 deaths occur unnecessarily while in the hospital due to medical malpractice [3].
None of these systems or data are made available in the legal system, because it's all "scratch my back" etc. So no, you really shouldn't trust judges (or anyone else in the legal system) since there are no systems of accountability.
[1]: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-24296544
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Airlines_Flight_188#...
[3]: https://journals.lww.com/journalpatientsafety/fulltext/2013/...
I was refuting your point; I didn't even reference the study let alone defend it.
And then you insult them for "going off about tired pilots", and falsely claim they were defending the study in question.
You might want to review the HN guidelines:
> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.
If you’re interested in tone policing, start with his reply.
This means that there's no pressure for them to manage the influence of factors like hunger on their decision.
That doesn’t compute.
For example, the developed world rolled out school lunch programs as a way to improve academic performance, which at the time of implementation was controversial.
> They found that the probability of a favorable decision drops from about 65% to almost 0% from the first ruling to the last ruling within each session and that the rate of favorable rulings returns to 65% in a session following a food break.
it's not unreasonable as an original hypothesis; and it's good that we're testing it and finding out later that it's wrong. but the base hypothesis is not particularly egregious.