tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27606211.post4475253258300772094..comments2023-06-04T11:38:40.921-04:00Comments on words / myth / ampers & virgule: It's not what you know, it's who you knowDick Margulishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10169512038331158003noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27606211.post-43864581232612668412007-06-25T13:42:00.000-04:002007-06-25T13:42:00.000-04:00I don't recall signing a confidentiality agreement...I don't recall signing a confidentiality agreement, but we were asked not to disclose anything material about the case (the parties, the arguments, etc.). I'm comfortable that I haven't revealed any details that would identify the parties. A calls B a liar and a thief. B calls A a liar and a thief. That description fits about ninety-nine and forty-four one hundredths percent of all civil cases.<BR/><BR/>As for the authenticity, I have no idea. The researchers told us that we were presented deliberately distorted information because doing so served the purpose of the research. It would not surprise me, in reading about the case if it ever does go to trial and make the news (not terribly likely, in my opinion, that it will do either) to find out that the facts are very different from those presented to us.<BR/><BR/>As to whether one side was clearly better than the other, obviously not, or the mock jury would not have been so evenly split. If you mean to ask whether I know which side funded the study, there were some subtle clues to that, and I have my opinion; but we were not told overtly.Dick Margulishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10169512038331158003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27606211.post-89362608145207728102007-06-25T13:27:00.000-04:002007-06-25T13:27:00.000-04:00Were you asked to sign any kind of confidentiality...Were you asked to sign any kind of confidentiality form or contract in exchange for payment for your participation in this project?<BR/><BR/>How would you rate the authenticity of the case presentations? Was one side clearly better presented than the other side? If yes, how so?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com