Ch. 4. Q.3

In chapter 4 of Think, the section of “The Unreliability of Hearsay and Anecdotal Evidence” caught my attention because hearsay is often used as evidence. Hearsay is defined as, “evidence that is heard by one person and then repeated to another.” This definition is simple to understand and is used on grounds to object in a courtroom. I thought this was important because it always plays a big role in any situation. When talking to a professor about a certain assignment that was missed because you received information from another student. Anecdotal evidence is defined as, “evidence based on personal testimonies.”  This is when people are witnesses and provide their description of what they think occurred. These are not very reliable because people have different interpretations of a certain event. One person might think people were yelling and another might have thought they were talking at a normal level. Both of these concepts are really interesting for me because I hope to one day work in a court room and these two concepts always take place in any courtroom.