Article by Craig R. Callen
This is in response to Professor Koehler's, The Probity/Policy Distinction in the Statistical Evidence Debate1 published in a recent issue of the Tulane Law Review. Professor Koehler's article is a response to several articles in the prior volume of this review, of which Ronald J. Allen, Daniel Shaviro, and I were the authors. We stated a number of positions at some length in that series. In general, I trust the reader to study the debate herself, discovering in the process the weaknesses in Professor Koehler's argument. His essay raises a basic point, however, that seems important enough to warrant a brief response. That point is one that Bayesian personalists often ignore in debates about the utility of so-called “naked statistical evidence.”
About the Author
Craig R. Callen. Professor of Law, Mississippi College School of Law. B.A., University of Iowa, 1971; J.D., Harvard Law School, 1974.
Citation
66 Tul. L. Rev. 1405 (1992)