Krystia Reed

Hi, David.

Thank you for having me today.

No, actually, so we did a study.

We were in the middle of collecting data when the pandemic shut us down.

So we were about six juries short for a study that we were doing.

And we decided, hey, let's switch this up and compare in-person to virtual juries.

And so we made some comparisons, like we ended up collecting 30 juries virtually and made some comparisons and found very few differences between our in-person and virtual juries.

So initially, the response is, hey, maybe there isn't a concern or major concerns, at least for some instances in which juries deliberate virtually instead of in-person.

So we had about five to six people in each jury and there were 30 juries virtually.

And it really seemed like they were engaged and involved in the trial.

It was a short trial and it was a civil trial, not a criminal case.

So that might change the way that you interpret this.

And they were getting paid, and they were getting paid pretty well.

But for the most part, there were not really major differences between our in-person juries and our virtual juries in terms of how engaged they were.

So it didn't seem like people were playing video games.

It didn't seem like people were...

were distracted in that way, which was excellent.

And that made it so that we feel like, okay, so at least this is maybe a place that we can start, although more research is necessary to see if it happens in longer trials.

So this was only like an hour.

And like I said, we were paying them.