It is often assumed that understanding the facts is the easiest part of developing a settlement number, a strategy, or a judgment as a neutral. But in fact, the science of judgment and decision making and studies in neuroscience teach us something else. The shortcuts or heuristics that our unconscious minds have to use to conserve energy \u2014 something like the compression necessary to send information through the Internet \u2013 may blind us to important information needed to assess our cases. Check out this illusion that occurs because over a lifetime of looking at faces, your mind must \u201csee\u201d things not as they are but as you anticipate. Google the Charlie Chaplin Mask Illusion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"