User:Jabrams1678/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Jury research

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because the topic sounded interesting to me. Just recently, I sat on a jury and, to my surprise, found it to be a very fascinating experience and I wanted to read about how the lawyers did research to put together a jury that would find in their favor.

Evaluate the article
This article did not provide any of the information that I was looking for. The introduction gave a vague definition of jury research calling it an "umbrella term" but didn't expand on what was included under that umbrella. It also didn't cite where they found that definition so, it appears to be an assumption. The next paragraph was intended to introduce the history of jury research but it reads as an editorial of how a jury is not qualified to make the decisions that they are responsible for. The last paragraph is titled "Research methods" but it does not contain any of the methods that lawyers employ when putting together a jury. An easy one may have been to find one of the many classes that a law school teaches on the topic and present that but it only offered jury consultancy as a way in which lawyers could do adequate research. It cites a number of articles and two external links. One link is to a webpage for jury consultants and the other is a page that lists jury research references. The link that they chose to embed in the article is actually the article itself and there are many areas where someone that reviewed the article noted that a citation should be added. Overall, it seems like a hastily written page that doesn't adequately give the information that the title of it suggested it would. It lacks any basic information on the topic and was not a good source of information.