Objections during voir dire examination of prospective jurors: the legal community has adopted a common set of evidentiary objections used when witnesses testify during trials or hearings. Most law students take a class on evidence. Early in their practice, young litigators review materials that ...
One might wonder why parents were raising considerably stronger objections to the public schools than they ever had to the proliferation of private schools. There are two rea- sons parental views were especially at variance with public schools. First, because the gov- ernment sponsored public, or...
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Before discussing the details of this statistical analysis, let us advance some objections of a mathematical character. First, statistical methods can be applied only to sufficiently large data sets. How big a set should be, depends upon the quality of the data, their nature and origin (dependen...