Question

If the law required that there must be overwhelming evidence beyond a shadow of a doubt in order to convict a person of a crime, jurors would be required to adopt a(n) _____ decision criterion.

Answer 1

If the law required that there must be overwhelming evidence beyond a shadow of a doubt in order to convict a person of a crime, jurors would be required to adopt a(n)  extremely conservative decision criterion.

Explanation:

Conservative approach of decision making can also be called as Maxi-min approach of decision making. It is in contrast to the optimistic approach of decision making. This method takes decisions considering the option that has higher pay off or lower costs.

It considers the worst case scenarios and choose the best one from them.In the scenario given, the optimistic approach will not be suitable to adopt since, there is a necessity in convicting a person of a crime. Thus, the best method to use here is an extremely conservative decision criterion.