Justice Not As Blind As Previously Thought

NotSoHeavyD3 writes "I doubt this is much of a surprise but apparently Cornell University did a study that seems to show you're more likely to get convicted if you're ugly. From the article: 'According to a Cornell University study, unattractive defendants are 22 percent more likely to be convicted than good-looking ones. And the unattractive also get slapped with harsher sentences — an average of 22 months longer in prison.'"

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Re:Correlation is not causation

[Thyamine]

Thank you. I hate that every report/study/survey that comes out gets this tag or someone gets the +5 just as you said. We are all aware of this, but it does not always apply!

Someone could post a study 'finds putting hand in fire causes burns! and 5 minutes later someone will post the correlation!=causation tag regardless.