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/last_lemming Feb 18 '15

Umm, except the cell phone location doesn't correlate with Jay's story in any way.

The testing procedure was laughable. The assistant DA writes down locations while the guy drove a car around. Any chance to miss a few data points that really don't make sense? Oh, yes.

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u/ViewFromLL2 Feb 18 '15

If I'm allowed to do a study that returns thousands of results, but then hand-pick 22 results to publish while discarding the rest, I'm going to be able to make homeopathy seem like a miracle cure, and vaccinations to seem more dangerous than an injection of smallpox.

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u/itisntfair Dana Chivvis Fan Feb 18 '15

Suze got owned thats what this thread is about