{"id":2741,"date":"2016-11-17T22:17:09","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T22:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2741"},"modified":"2016-11-17T22:17:09","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T22:17:09","slug":"prosecutors-must-recognize-vulnerability-to-cognitive-flaws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2741","title":{"rendered":"Prosecutors must recognize vulnerability to cognitive flaws"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2742\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2742\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2742\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/161117Shammas.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Shammas\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/161117Shammas.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/161117Shammas-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2742\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Shammas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Nov. 17, 2016<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s no secret that we humans grant far too much confidence to our opinions. But when powerful people do this, the dangers compound. Zealotry replaces fair-mindedness. The worst excesses happen when prosecutors forget they\u2019re flawed humans, like anyone else, and that as a result they\u2019re subject to cognitive flaws like tunnel vision, racial bias, and the desire to reduce cognitive dissonance through \u2018cognitive consistency\u2019 even at the expense of complicated, nuanced, self-contradictory, paradoxical truth&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCognitive bias and overconfidence touch us all. Only a conscious awareness that we might be wrong can counter unthinking heuristics, biases, and schemas that lead to imperfect conclusions&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWisdom counsels not the confident use of power, but the wise use of power. The first step of wisdom is recognizing how little we know&#8230;.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 From \u201c \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/mike-shammas\/why-innocent-people-get-c_b_10058044.html\" target=\"_blank\">Making a Murderer\u2019 Attorney Highlights Our Troubling Rate of Wrongful Conviction &#8212; and Suggests a Solution<\/a>\u201d\u00a0by Michael Shammas in the Huffington Post (July 12)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2016\/11\/17\/502457887\/brendan-dassey-of-making-a-murderer-to-remain-in-prison-appeals-court-rules\" target=\"_blank\">the latest<\/a>\u00a0on the still-imprisoned Brendan Dassey.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1707\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/LRDCC20.jpg\" alt=\"LRDCC20\" width=\"132\" height=\"20\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nov. 17, 2016 \u201cIt\u2019s no secret that we humans grant far too much confidence to our opinions. But when powerful people do this, the dangers compound. Zealotry replaces fair-mindedness. The worst excesses happen when prosecutors forget they\u2019re flawed humans, like anyone else, and that as a result they\u2019re subject to cognitive flaws like tunnel vision, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2741"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2744,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741\/revisions\/2744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}