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If you find yourself up for parole in Israel, you should pick the time of day you make your pitch very, very carefully. An article in The Economist back in the spring described a study of parole applicants and their chance of being granted parole as a function of the time of day the case is considered. The data clearly show you have a much lower likelihood of being paroled if the judge hearing your case is tired or hungry. The graph below (a simplified sketch as The Economist wanted $460 to use their graph) shows how incredibly strong this relationship is. The chance of being paroled decreases as the number of cases the judge has heard increases, and meal breaks reset the chance from being very low to quite high.