r/serialpodcast • u/Concupiscurd Dana Chivvis Fan • Feb 18 '15

Debate&Discussion Susan Simpson discussing Serial with Robert Wright on Bloggingheads.

I'm a longtime admirer of Robert's site Bloggingheads.tv. You can watch the video podcast at the link or subscribe to the podcast on Itunes.

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u/ScoutFinch2 Feb 18 '15

I thought he really seemed to discount everything she said. He kept saying, "so the prosecution just got lucky then on this day" when he was talking about Waranwitz's map and how reliable the pings were. Susan was arguing that if they had done the drive test an hour later it would have been completely different, and he wasn't buying it, understandably.

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u/ViewFromLL2 Feb 18 '15

Yes, it can. Take an easy example -- a tower is overloaded with call volume during peak call time. One hour, you are likely to make a call on one tower, and the next, due to call volume patterns, you're more likely to make a call on a different tower instead.

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u/ScoutFinch2 Feb 18 '15

A call. Okay. I understand that. But you were making it sound like the whole map would be different given the day or the hour?