Book contents
- Explaining the Evidence
- Explaining the Evidence
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 The Cliff Death
- Chapter 2 Models in Mind
- Chapter 3 Causal Modelling
- Chapter 4 Thinking beyond Biases
- Chapter 5 Expert Reasoning in Crime Investigation
- Chapter 6 Questions of Evidence
- Chapter 7 Competing Causes
- Chapter 8 Confirmation Bias
- Chapter 9 Telling Stories
- Chapter 10 Idioms for Legal Reasoning
- Chapter 11 Causal Reasoning in a Time of Crisis
- References
- Index
Chapter 9 - Telling Stories
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 October 2021
- Explaining the Evidence
- Explaining the Evidence
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 The Cliff Death
- Chapter 2 Models in Mind
- Chapter 3 Causal Modelling
- Chapter 4 Thinking beyond Biases
- Chapter 5 Expert Reasoning in Crime Investigation
- Chapter 6 Questions of Evidence
- Chapter 7 Competing Causes
- Chapter 8 Confirmation Bias
- Chapter 9 Telling Stories
- Chapter 10 Idioms for Legal Reasoning
- Chapter 11 Causal Reasoning in a Time of Crisis
- References
- Index
Summary
Chapter 9 looks at how people use stories to make sense of complex evidence. I discuss the Sally Clark case, a tragic miscarriage of justice where the prosecution narrative over-rode the correct use of statistical evidence. I present the Story Model of legal decision-making, which shows how people construct stories by drawing on world knowledge and generic story structures. I suggest how the Story Model might be augmented with causal models and extended to include evidence evaluation.
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- Explaining the EvidenceHow the Mind Investigates the World, pp. 186 - 209Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021