Have we learnt anything from the Maddie case?

[Angelo222]

Ten years since Maddie disappeared without a trace.  Have we learnt anything ten years on?



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[Robittybob1]

Ten years since Maddie disappeared without a trace.  Have we learnt anything ten years on?

I was thinking how much researching this case has taught me.  Individually it is teaching us skills that we may not have had.  I watched a YT on how to do fingerprinting, I learned about the "not proven" verdict in Scottish courts, DNA analysis was a big study too. 
Whether it has taught us anything across the whole of society that would be a harder thing to measure.

[Carana]

Personally, I've learned a lot about all sorts of subjects.

Sadly, my interest hasn't been of much use.

[Carana]

I was thinking how much researching this case has taught me.  Individually it is teaching us skills that we may not have had.  I watched a YT on how to do fingerprinting, I learned about the "not proven" verdict in Scottish courts, DNA analysis was a big study too. 
Whether it has taught us anything across the whole of society that would be a harder thing to measure.

Anything we learn can be useful, although possibly in unexpected ways and in unrelated situations.

Learning to cut through tabloid crap has been a lesson for life, for example.

[Robittybob1]

I must admit that when the discussion in the McCann case gets into areas of government cover-up I am left feeling helpless.  These would be issues that the general person feels we could not influence, so we would tend to not change our behaviour, because the workings of the government is beyond our control (Q. Were there national security issues involved in the case?).

[Mr Gray]

I must admit that when the discussion in the McCann case gets into areas of government cover-up I am left feeling helpless.  These would be issues that the general person feels we could not influence, so we would tend to not change our behaviour, because the workings of the government is beyond our control (Q. Were there national security issues involved in the case?).

answer...look at the evidence...no..imo

[G-Unit]

I was thinking how much researching this case has taught me.  Individually it is teaching us skills that we may not have had.  I watched a YT on how to do fingerprinting, I learned about the "not proven" verdict in Scottish courts, DNA analysis was a big study too. 
Whether it has taught us anything across the whole of society that would be a harder thing to measure.

I have leaned a lot about PR and spin. It worked for Thatcher and Blair, but a lot of people can spot it easily now so unless PR professionals can come up with new methods they're on their way out imo.

[Mr Gray]

I have leaned a lot about PR and spin. It worked for Thatcher and Blair, but a lot of people can spot it easily now so unless PR professionals can come up with new methods they're on their way out imo.

I think some of us can see through PR and spin and see what the truth is

[Robittybob1]

answer...look at the evidence...no..imo

Tell that to Amaral.

[Mr Gray]

Tell that to Amaral.

  as I stated today...he doesnt listen to experts

[barrier]

  as I stated today...he doesnt listen to experts

Well his experts knew enough to get a verdict over turned in the appeal court and upheld in the Supreme court.

[Robittybob1]

  as I stated today...he doesnt listen to experts

In your opinion!

[Alice Purjorick]

Ten years since Maddie disappeared without a trace.  Have we learnt anything ten years on?

Don't leave three toddlers without adult supervision in an unsecured apartment ?

[John]

I believe we have learned many lessons from the Madeleine McCann case, the most important being not to take things at face value.

"Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many."
Roman Poet Phaedrus

[Miss Taken Identity]

I believe we have learned many lessons from the Madeleine McCann case, the most important being not to take things at face value.

"Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many."
Roman Poet Phaedrus

Good one   

OR

 Occam's razor.

Definition  :a scientific and philosophical rule that entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily which is interpreted as requiring that the simplest of competing theories be preferred to the more complex or that explanations of unknown phenomena be sought first in terms of known quantities.

In other words: The simplest explanation is usually the right one. Detectives use it to deduce who's the likeliest suspect in a murder case -  Doctors use it to determine the illness behind a set of symptoms. This line of reasoning is called Occam's razor.

http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-occam-s-razor.html