Individual juror decisions do not simply aggregate into deliberating jury outcomes

Evidence

Additionally, there are important reasons for not assuming that decisions made by individual jurors will reflect those of deliberating juries, as jurors may be influenced by the initial discussion of the evidence, and the various processes of social influence which may influence verdicts (Salerno & Diamond, 2010). — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law, 913

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: what specific social-influence processes most distort the individual-to-deliberating-jury mapping, and how much verdict change results from deliberation alone?
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law: A Definitive Look at…, 913
• XREF: connects to: Demographics weakly predict how individual jurors actually vote on the same evidence — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 843