The expansion of mass media has led to an explosion in news coverage of criminal activities to the point where it has become virtually impossible to find citizens who are unaware of the details of crimes committed in their communities. █████ ██ ██ █████████ ████████ ████ ██████ ███ ████ ███ █████ ██ █ ████ ███ ████ ██████ ████ █████ ███ ██ ███ ██ ████ ██ ███████ █████ ███ █████ ███ ████ ██ ██ ████ █████████ ██ ███████ ██████ ███ ██ ███ ████ ██ ███ █████ ████████ ██████████ ██ █████ ██ ██████ █ ████████ ██████████ █████████ ██████ ███ ██████ ██ ██ █ ████████ ████ ██ █████ ████████ ███████ ████████████ ██ ██████ █████████ ██████ ██ ██████ ██ ██████ █████████
Problem ·Mass media coverage of crime has made it hard to impanel impartial jurors
Author's Solution ·With the right jury composition
Impartiality is a property not of an individual juror but rather of the collective jury. It can be achieved via a process of deliberation among informed, curious, and even opinionated jurors.
Passage Style
Critique or debate
Problem-analysis
5.
The passage suggests that a █████████ ███████ ██ ██████████ ████████ ██ █████ █████ ██ ████ ██ ████
Question Type
Implied
The author believes that in order to be impartial, a jury must be made of informed citizens that are representative of the community’s collective experience. Since the author thinks this experience “includes exposure to mass media,” the author suggests that one potential benefit of mass-media coverage is that it can help a jury be impartial. To the author, being informed about a case outside of trial can be part of impartiality.
a
determine which facts ███ ███████████ ███ ██████ ██ ████
There’s no evidence mass media coverage can help determine what facts are “appropriate” to hear.
b
improve the ability ██ ██████ ██ ████████ █████ ██████
The author doesn’t think impartiality requires ignoring information and opinions about a case. So we have no reason to think the author believes removal of biases is a benefit. In any case, we also have no evidence that mass media coverage can help minimize biases.
c
strengthen the process ██ █████ ██████ ████ ██ █████████
The author believes that in order to be impartial, a jury must be made of informed citizens that are representative of the community’s collective experience. Since the author thinks this experience “includes exposure to mass media,” the author suggests that one potential benefit of mass-media coverage is that it can help a jury be impartial. To the author, being informed about a case outside of trial can be part of impartiality.
d
change the methods ██████ ███ ██ ████████ █████████ ██████
We have no evidence mass media coverage can change how judges conduct voir dire for jurors.
The author doesn’t think impartiality requires ignoring information and opinions about a case. So we have no reason to think the author believes increasing awareness of biases is a benefit. In any case, we also have no evidence that mass media coverage can help jurors become more aware of their biases.
Difficulty
77% of people who answer get this correct
This is a difficult question.
It is significantly harder than the average question in this passage.
CURVE
Score of students with a 50% chance of getting this right
25%141
153
75%166
Analysis
Implied
Critique or debate
Law
Problem-analysis
Answer Popularity
PopularityAvg. score
a
1%
157
b
7%
164
c
77%
169
d
7%
163
e
8%
163
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