I was on a jury a few months ago for the first time and it seemed like a reasonable cross-section of society. I don't know if I'll go so far as to say smart peo

I was on a jury a few months ago for the first time and it seemed like a reasonable cross-section of society. I don't know if I'll go so far as to say smart people are more likely to have professional-level jobs than dumb people, but professional-level jobs are not going to fire you for going to jury duty for a couple days with quite a bit of notice (I got my notice ~2 months before my time in the jury pool). While it didn't seem any "stupider" than society as a whole, it was also very clear when folks gave the prosecutor or state-called witnesses more weight than the defendant or the defense witnesses. And most trials aren't major. There were 5 or 6 trials at the courthouse that week, and only one was estimated to take more than 3 days. Ours took a full day but I still got home before my wife.