https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/society/2018/when-courtroom-science-goes-wrong-and-how-stats-can-fix-it https://10.1146/knowable-101118-4 COMIC: Bite marks, shoe prints, crime-scene fibers: Matches to suspects are often far shakier than courtroom experts claim. Better statistical methods — among them, a little beast known as the “likelihood ratio” — can cut down on wrong convictions.

]]> When courtroom science goes wrong — and how stats can fix it doi:10.1146/knowable-101118-4 Fri, 12 Oct 2018 00:00:12 GMT Society Regina Nuzzo