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The "hungry judge" finding did not replicate [0], and the original paper had serious methodological flaws, namely, that prisoners with parole hearings later in the day were more likely to have either overworked "shared counsel" (the Israeli equivalent of public defenders) or no counsel at all [1]. You should consider the hungry judge effect another debunked victim of the replication crisis.

[0]: https://www.tse-fr.eu/sites/default/files/TSE/documents/doc/...

[1]: https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1110910108



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