A numerical study on efficient jury size

Abstract For judicial democracy, many societies adopt jury trials, where verdicts are made by a unanimous vote of, conventionally, 12 lay citizens. Here, using the majority-vote model, we show that such jury sizes achieve the best balance between the accuracy of verdicts and the time spent for unani...

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Main Author: Takamitsu Watanabe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Nature 2020-08-01
Series:Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-020-00556-1