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What I learned about ethics from Sherlock Holmes

annmariastat
4 min readNov 21, 2019

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Scoring ethics tests we gave to tribal members from reservations throughout the Great Plains states reminded me a lot of grading math homework…. but, it’s probably not in the way you are thinking Actually, I have no idea what you are thinking. I don’t even know you.

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Here’s what I do know — I looked at hundreds of ethics surveys/ tests in preparation for a talk Dr. Erich Longie and I gave for the North Dakota State Supreme Court and what I have found is — a lot of nothing. I mean that very literally. Like Sherlock Holmes in Silver Blaze, when he noted the curious incident of the dog doing nothing, I have found this “nothing” to be very intriguing.

Here is the first reason why, and as much as it pains me to admit it, it comes about in one of those times when I thought Dr. Longie was wrong and probably crazy to boot, but he has lived on the reservation his whole life, not me, so I went along with him and he turned out to be right.

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annmariastat
annmariastat

Written by annmariastat

President, The Julia Group & CEO 7 Generation Games If it touches a number, we do it. 4 daughters, 4 degrees, 1 world championship.

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