THINGS TRIAL LAWYERS SHOULD LEARN FROM RESEARCH
Whenever I’m faced with some statistical evidence offered in opposition to an issue in my case, I think about the conclusions from a survey done in 1936. A well-known magazine of that era, The Literary Digest, had funded a national poll in order to predict the outcome of the presidential race between Roosevelt and Landon. The names of the people who were to be polled were taken from telephone listings and automobile registration lists. A very large number of people,…