We have shown that telling the Lindsay Clancy jury to keep deliberating makes a deadlock worse. The jury said it could not agree. A Massachusetts judge sent them back in anyway.
I ran the test on Sunday with a sample of nineteen rooms. A sample is simply the group you bother to look at. The control group got to go home. The talking group did not.
Agreement did not rise among the people told to stay and talk. It dropped. We checked the chance this was luck. That chance was tiny. This is the end of the verdict as a working tool. We noted it and went to lunch.
Our building porter watched the clocks and put it in one line.
