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u/Blahblahblahinternet · 1 pointr/serialpodcast

So this is the thing: I'm a lawyer, which is a career in the pursuit of persuasion, but isn't necessarily a rhetoric degree. I have met people from Universities that offer a specific degree in rhetoric, but that's not me.

Off the top of my head...without searching google: the best book that I think would be available to laypersons is "The Legal Analyst." http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0226238350/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_dp_ss_1/175-4668907-7869735?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_r=0BAXZK8EV16FHS7DNQ77&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_p=1944687682&pf_rd_i=0674062485

It's intended for new law school graduates and t hose thinking about going to law school. It opens your eyes into the intricacy of information presentation and how to poke holes in other people's presentation of evidence. Very concise, very well written.

personally, I've read: THe Legal Analyst and "The Art of War." -- The Art of War was a favorite of Bill Clinton. One book I've heard of amongst people who are into this is. How to win friends and influence people (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Win_Friends_and_Influence_People)

If you're interested in more information, you can google "game theory" in general, and that brings up a lot of information.

I personally stay away from "how to win friends" and a lot of stuff of that nature because there is a point where you study something so much that it becomes fake, and I don't want the friends I have to be fake or acquired through strategy, and not through my own charming personality. :)

u/MattyMattOc · 4 pointsr/serialpodcast

People's reactions to drugs are as individual as the people themselves.

Mark Vonnegut, son of Kurt, wrote a beautiful memoir, The Eden Express, detailing his mental breakdown following smoking some weed in the early 70's when weed was, most definitely, "pretty much just weed". Course he nibbled on some mescaline too which probably didn't help...

Fast forward a quarter of a century and in '99 there was a multitude of different strains of weed, or at least there was in San Fran and, while Baltimore is no San Fran, I'd be astounded if weed was "just weed".

People talk about 1999 like it's lost in the depths of time. It was only 16 years ago. You could get cell phones for twenty bucks! Pagers came free on a ten bucks a month contract!

If you want proof that Jay wasn't some drug king pin, that's all the proof you need right there. Jay, despite all his protestations to the contrary, was no more the "criminal element" than the man in the moon. His lack of a cell phone or pager torpedoes the wackier drug conspiracies doing the rounds.

So while there's zero proof that Adnan zonked out after smoking his first blunt, let's not pretend it couldn't have happened. He was only 17. Did it happen? Did he zonk out? No way of knowing but pretty unlikely, otherwise he'd probably have said so at his trial. Mentioning things like "the bad kid fed me full of drugs" tends to buy a smidgen of sympathy for the accused.

Amazing OP by the way, you near had me climbing down off the fence! But I'm still up here and still enjoying the view...

u/partymuffell · -1 pointsr/serialpodcast

> Finally, I am going to ask you one last time to stop using the term "prior" incorrectly. I understand what you are saying but what you are referring to IS NOT A PRIOR. At least not in the way Bayesian statisticians have defined the prior for the last 50 years.

It's amazing to me that someone with a background in statistics can be so oblivious to the history and the conceptual foundations of probability theory. What I have described is the standard Bayesian interpretation of probability and the standard use of prior probability within that tradition. Have you actually ever read Bayes's original paper? Are you familiar with Bayesians such as Bruno de Finetti, E. T. Jaynes, Richard Jeffreys? It's pretty incredible to believe that stastistics departments can award a BSc in statistics to someone who is not even familiar with one of the standard interpretations of probability theory. I assume you are all indoctrinated in the frequentist interpretation and then you get some Bayesian ideas sprinkled on top. I strongly recommend that you read this book by Donald Gillies. It's a very good introduction to various approaches to the conceptual foundations of probability, including the subjective Bayesian approach. Since I'm partial to an objective Bayesian interpretation, however, I'd also recommend this book by Jon Williamson.

> I think your problem is that you are so sure that you are right you become sure that others who disagree with you must simply not understand how to think. SK doesn't understand how corroboration works? Since I do not share the level of certainty that you have in Adnan's guilt I must be guilty of not understanding basic probabilistic reasoning? Do you ever consider that someone could disagree with you without having some inability to reason? Do you concede that you have your own biases and that you are unable to consider the case without them? I do. I admit that my background, being a minority, seeing police injustice, growing up where I grew up, etc., all shape my world view. I try not to let it affect things but I am not perfect.

Biases affect us all. Me, you, and everyone else. That doesn't mean that we shouldn't strive to look at the evidence objectively in a case like this. I happen to share your views about the cops in general (although I don't think that the detectives handled this case badly) and I think the prosecutors crossed a lot of ethical lines in this trial, but I still believe the evidence clearly shows that Adnan is guilty beyond reasonable doubt. I don't fault people for having a different treshold of reasonable doubt than me. What really boggles my mind here is the people who actively believe Adnan is innocent, who actively believe Jay did it, or who actively believe a random serial killer killed Hae. I really don't think those people are looking at the evidence dispassionately. But if you look at the evidence and you say "He probably did it but I don't feel his guilt has been proven beyond reasonable doubt", I simply assume that we have different conceptions of what doubts are reasonable. I also think it's hard to know what evidence was presented at trial from a 12-hour podcast. Even Deirdre Enright says that the show only presented about 1/8 of the material pertaining to this case.

u/serial-mahogany · 2 pointsr/serialpodcast

Cheers. And yeah, Dobash & Dobash have done a lot of work in this area. They recently released a book called 'When Men Murder Women' which looks to be a culmination of all of their work on this topic. It looks like a great read and I'm considering diving into it at some stage.

I'm glad you liked the post!

u/karmackayo · 5 pointsr/serialpodcast

I thought they said that there was no way of knowing when the page had been torn out because it also covered the area she would be driving most. I'm pretty sure had one of those map books and it is often easier to just rip out a page (or after awhile it comes out) that you use a lot rather than trying to juggle the whole book. This is a link to that on Amazon. LOL if you read the review it says I have a much used one in the car. http://www.amazon.com/Baltimore-City-County-Maryland-Street/dp/087530043X

u/robbchadwick · 2 pointsr/serialpodcast

> 3+ years 1992- 1995 David Simon and Ed Burns embedded with the addict community in B'more City and wrote "The Corner", pub. 1997 ...

I really enjoyed The Corner. It is still available on Amazon in a number of formats.. HBO did a TV version of it; but it is no longer part of their back catalog on the service. However, for those who want to see it, the DVD version is also still available on Amazon. It is quite good ... more like a documentary than The Wire.

u/nowhathappenedwas · 13 pointsr/serialpodcast

Smerconish is still wearing his right-wing talk radio hat--trying to attract attention by saying inflammatory things.

He also has a long history of unabashedly supporting the police and prosecutors. He wrote a book claiming that Mumia Abu-Jamal was rightfully convicted. He came out in defense of the NYPD's stop-and-frisk program after a federal judge shut it down for being racist and unconstitutional. He was adamant that the police and prosecutor behaved well in Ferguson, that grand jury got it right, and criticized protesters. He also vaguely defended the Eric Garner grand jury verdict.

In short, it's not difficult to see why a right wing radio personality who has made a career out of defending the results of controversial judicial decisions that favored the police would be upset by Serial.

u/iamthezubir · 1 pointr/serialpodcast

It still seems to be vanishingly unlikely -- yes, there have been honor killings, though the US is not the UK, and there are (as far as I can tell) no similar cases in the US. Especially since it was Ramadan; I imagine that Adnan's father -- as well as the imam & others -- have very good alibis.

Also, I really don't think a neocon think tank is the best source on the Middle East, especially given Pakistan is not the Middle East.

It is very important to remember that Muslims are not a monolith; that domestic violence is more common in other ethnic groups (that is, not South Asian), that Islam and Islamism are very different things. I can find no evidence that Muslim men in America are more likely to commit murder than white men, and if we're opening the investigation to every man who knew Hae existed, we're going to be here a really long time.

I'd recommend [Karima Bennoune's Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here]
(http://www.amazon.com/Your-Fatwa-Does-Apply-Here/dp/0393350258/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1419736930&sr=8-1&keywords=your+fatwa+does+not+apply+here) to get an idea of the diversity of adherents to Islam.

Oh, and the vision of the mosque Adnan's father attended?

"ISB aspires to be the anchor of a growing Muslim community with diverse backgrounds, democratically governed, relating to one another with inclusiveness and tolerance, and interacting with neighbors in an Islamic exemplary manner."

They also have an interfaith council, which is generally a sign that the mosque is not very fundamentalist.

u/nomickti · 2 pointsr/serialpodcast

You are severely, severely overestimating people's memory abilities (and likely what memory even is). There's been so much written about this it's hard to even point to where you could start reading, but this is as good a place as any: http://www.amazon.com/In-Search-Memory-Emergence-Science/dp/0393329372

Here's some free stuff:

http://www.radiolab.org/story/91569-memory-and-forgetting/

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/17/science/memories-become-weaker-without-reinforcement-study-finds.html

u/segovius · 1 pointr/serialpodcast

Sure. He's obviously a fraud. Many psychics are. Everyone knows that.

I'm more concerned about what everyone DOESN'T know which is the degree to which Randi himself is duplicitous and why his 'prize' is a bogus heap of steaming bullcrap.

There's a few great books on it and how and why Randi's stacked the deck. This is a good one:

http://www.amazon.com/Randis-Prize-Sceptics-Paranormal-Matters/dp/1848764944

And on Randi himself and his depredations everyone should read this recent Daily Telegraph article:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/11270453/James-Randi-debunking-the-king-of-the-debunkers.html

u/[deleted] · 4 pointsr/serialpodcast

We should not emulate the show itself as it seems to privilege Adnan's perspective over all others, including Hae's or Hae's family. That being said, I understand where you're coming from. You feel like the sub is wearing this picture how a politician wears a flag pin. I see how that seems disingenuous to you. It doesn't hit my guts that way though. Also, it's not unheard of for this kind of narrative:

http://www.amazon.com/Twin-Peaks-Season-Special-Edition/dp/B00005JKES

u/seriallysurreal · 5 pointsr/serialpodcast

We need that guy from the show "Lie to Me" to step in and sort out this mess once and for all. I was bummed when it was cancelled.

If you missed it, it's an excellent show starring the talented Tim Roth, using "deception detection" skills to solve crimes. It is based on the real life investigative work of Paul Ekman:
http://www.paulekman.com/lie-to-me/

You can get streaming episodes on Amazon Prime if you're in the US: http://www.amazon.com/Lie-Me-Season-Tim-Roth/dp/B001QOGY54

**Edited: added links and fixed grammar

u/NoFunPat · 9 pointsr/serialpodcast

The Wire is a TV show but the depiction of the Baltimore Police Department is informed by David Simon embedding inside the Homocide unit for a full year which resulted in a book: http://www.amazon.com/Homicide-Killing-Streets-David-Simon-ebook/dp/B003J4VELI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1417802133&sr=8-1&keywords=homocide+david+simon

Many of the events which occur in the show are based upon real stories from this book (one example which springs to mind is the use of the copy machine as a polygraph) and several characters are based upon real BPD detectives (Jay Landsman being the most prominent one).

u/ddol · 2 pointsr/serialpodcast

This is now the #1 Children's Painting Book, and sold out on Amazon.

Thanks Serial!

u/bort_sampson · 1 pointr/serialpodcast

Check out the book "Until You Are Dead", a fascinating true story about one of Canada's most notorious cases...

http://www.amazon.ca/Until-You-Are-Dead-Truscotts/dp/0676973817

u/Rolyat136 · -4 pointsr/serialpodcast

It could be almost anything at all.
However, it is likely not a "good fit" for Koenigs well crafted and entertainingly produced narrative of a wart infested criminal detection and punishment system.
Why else, in the age of Web publishing ease, has Koenig withheld the trial transcripts and other legal documents that would demonstrate how much her P.O.V. of this case has been confabulated, in Reddit discussions and other public perceptions, with the actual record.

Suggested further readings:

Malcom, Janet The Journalist and the Murderer
> " . . . In this book, she examines the psychopathology of journalism. . . "
http://www.amazon.com/The-Journalist-Murderer-Janet-Malcolm/dp/0679731830

> Every journalist is "a kind of confidence man . . . gaining . . . trust and betraying . . . without remorse," says Malcolm. . . (Judy Quinn, "Library Journal")

(someone should lend a copy of this to Rabia Choudry)