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Article on statistics, IDing, and trials from a former professor of mine: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1432516 (free download).

Also very depressing to read his work on forensics. Long story short, everything in CSI besides DNA evidence is an unscientific sham. And even DNA evidence is dominated by lab error (1-2%). See: lst.law.asu.edu/fs09/pdfs/koehler4_3.pdf.



If you know anything about it, how would you/he propose fixing the problem from an institutional perspective?

Section V of that paper suggests that being more precise in language choice (an important problem in statistics) is his main advice there, but perhaps making the data and conclusions open in some "anonymized" form would support this endeavour?




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