Krystia Reed

So that might be a difference, right?

It ended up taking like four hours, but the deliberation part was only an hour.

So for the most part, we don't know.

So researchers can guess, but the courts aren't really involved in what's happening in the deliberation room.

So it's not like I can videotape an actual deliberation.

So this is kind of the closest that we can get in terms of viewing that.

where we can compare the people that were participating in our study in person versus those that are participating virtually.

And the dynamics seemed essentially the same.

There were fewer interruptions and other things on Zoom, which is what you might expect based on running this podcast and talking to other people in that way.

And so I thought that that was really interesting, that it seemed like there were less people talking over one another and more people had the opportunity to participate on Zoom.

You always have one or two throughout the whole study that might not be paying attention in person or on Zoom.

I think that we had to wake a participant up both in person and in Zoom.

So you still have concerns about just generally people paying attention, but it was less of a concern overall comparing the two medium.

Very few.

So there were differences that our virtual jurors were generally younger.

They were more likely to have college degrees and they were more likely to be working full time.

But this was a quasi-experimental study, which means that we had a little bit less control.

So I don't know if you know anything about quasi-experimental studies or experimental studies.

Okay.

Okay.