Our Noisy Minds
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Our Noisy Minds

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Speaker 2: If you're a defendant, you have to hope for good weather because on very hot days, judges assigned more severe sentences. And that is true though. Judges are air conditioned, but it's the outside temperature nevertheless seems to have an effect. It's been established in at least one study that for judges who are keen on football, the result of their team on sunday or saturday, depending on whether it's professional or college will affect the judgment they make on monday and there will be more severe if their team lost.

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Luke's Note

Studies have shown that judges hand out more severe sentences on cloudy days, after their football team lost, etc.)