The jury paradox
If you’ve ever served on a jury, you’ve seen this firsthand. Twelve individuals all hear, see, and otherwise experience the same information at the same time from the same vantage point. Yet the ensuing deliberations would lead an objective outsider to conclude that some of the jury members must have experienced something significantly different than the other members.
These differences sometimes prompt us to conclude that others aren’t listening to us, or that they simply are wrong in their analysis and conclusions. After all, when we gathered the information, we came to our own correct conclusion, so why didn’t the others do so as well?
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