Mind: The Bias You Didn't Expect

It's not what the judge had for breakfast. It's how recently the judge had breakfast. A new study ... on Israeli judges shows that, when making parole decisions, they grant about 65% after meal breaks, and almost all the way down to 0% right before breaks and at the end of the day (i.e. as far from the last break as possible). There's a relatively linear decline between the two points.

For more, see The Bias You Didn't Expect by Psychohistorian, April 14, 2011 at lesswrong.