Capable but insane

Potentially Capable but not Actual

Many senrice courses in statistics, in my experience, have degenerated into the presentation of a set of recipes. The prevailing situation extant in many courses was summed up recently by my son, himself a trainee engineer, when he said, "I lean the recipes to pass the exam but I don't really understand the material". In fact the rapidity with which the material in his course has been presented...

Punishing the insane: the verdict of guilty but mentally ill.

The defense of not guilty by reason of insanity (NGRI) has been a part of English jurisprudence at least since the reign of King Aethelred in the 10th century and today is an important aspect of American law. Some form of insanity defense appears to be an element of due process. Those states that have successfully abolished the insanity defense provide for introduction of psychiatric testimony ...

Insane Delusions

Who Is Insane?

between himself and an insane woman, he comes close to a satisfactory definition of insanity when he says to her, "You, of course, are insane, for this reason, the law provides that only insane persons shall be confined in asylums for the insane, while the sane are rigidly excluded. Now, as between you and me, you are legally confined in this asylum, and I am legally excluded; therefore, when y...

[Insane railroad workers].