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Season One - Episode 2: The Breakup
Season One - Episode 2: The Breakup
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I remember visiting this website once...
It was called Episode 02: The Breakup - Serial
Here's some stuff I remembered seeing:
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Their relationship began like a storybook high-school romance: a prom date, love notes, sneaking off to be alone. But unlike other kids at school, they had to keep their dating secret, because their parents disapproved. Both of them, but especially Adnan, were under special pressure at home, and the stress of that spilled over into their relationship. Eventually Hae broke up with Adnan. And then, depending on who you ask, Adnan was either understandably sad and moping around, or full of rage and plotting to kill her.
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Last spring, Adnan sent me a letter about ... something, I can’t even remember exactly what. But it included these two graphs that he’d drawn out in pencil. With no explanation. There was just a Post-it attached to the back of one of the papers that said: “Could you please hold these 2 pages until we next speak? Thank you.”
This was curious. It crossed my mind that Adnan might be … off his rocker in some way. Or, more excitingly, that these graphs were code for some top-secret information too dangerous for him to send in a letter.
But no. These graphs were a riddle that I would fail to solve when we next spoke, a couple of days later.
Adnan: Now, so would you prefer, as a consumer, would you rather purchase at a store where prices are consistent or items from a store where the prices fluctuate?
Adnan: That makes sense. Especially in today’s economy. So if you had to choose, which store would you say has more consistent prices?
Sarah: As compared to C-Mart, which is going way up and down.
Look again, Adnan said. Right. Their prices are exactly the same. It’s just that the graph of C-Mart prices is zoomed way in — the y-axis is in much smaller cost increments — so it looks like dramatic fluctuations are happening. And he made the pencil lines much darker and more striking in the C-Mart graph, so it looks more...sinister or something.
This was Adnan’s point: See how easy it is to look at the same information, but, depending on how it’s presented, come to two different conclusions about what it means? The 7-11 graph is the “innocent” graph. The C-Mart graph is the “guilty” graph. But they contain the same information.
Adnan says he’s thought about this a lot in relation to his own case, and he’s always been baffled by it; how some people (the jurors) sat through the trial and heard one thing, and others (his family, his lawyers, his friends) sat through it and heard the opposite.
"I read a book about a prosecutor who said it’s not always about innocent or guilty, it’s about who can persuade the jury,” Adnan said. “And they’re not being dishonest — nothing about that graph is dishonest — but it’s kind of misleading. It’s darker, it’s zoomed in, the heading is underlined. Everything about it is misleading, but it’s true information.
"When I first came [to prison], I was naïve to the law, to prison life, to a lot of things," he said. "Now that I’m older, I see guys naïve to the law coming in. I use this graph to illustrate it. Probably people here say, \'Oh my god, Syed showed you that damn graph, didn’t he?\' And I’m like, \'No it proves a point!\' It proves a good point. So I’m kinda infamous for those graphs.”
By the time I’m done with this story, I’m hoping I’ll have plotted my own tea graph - without undue spin from C-Mart, or 7-11. ~ See More
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