in step 302 the data that the user has input is used to determine whether the items of evidence prove the conclusion the results of step 302 are displayed to the user in step 303 in step 304 the data input by the user and the result of step 302 are compared to data and results of previous users of process 300 to allow the user or a subsequent user such as an administrator of the system to compare the user 39 s results to the results of other users in step 305 the results of step 304 are displayed to allow the user or the administrator to view the user results as compared to other users the process ends in step 306 preferred exemplary embodiment for determining the probable outcome of a trial the following discussion and subsequent drawings describe one possible preferred exemplary embodiment of the present invention used to determine a verdict in a judicial trial based upon user input data it is understood that any of the processes described below can be designed with minimal effort to conform to any type of situation wherein several items of evidence are used to prove a conclusion other examples include but are not limited to determining a probable disease based upon a number of symptoms and determining a cause of an accident in an investigation a process for entering items of evidence into a database fig1 in the preferred exemplary embodiment of the present invention an administrator such as a user or a knowledge based system input items of evidence that can prove or disprove a conclusion in a trial the conclusion is a fundamental issue of a trial the fundamental issue of a.