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In USA, accurate to 1 in a million means you can convict 300 innocent people for every guilty one. Bad stats, especially around DNA, has convicted many innoce
by gowld 6y ago
In USA, accurate to 1 in a million means you can convict 300 innocent people for every guilty one.
Bad stats, especially around DNA, has convicted many innocent people.
BTW, law and Order did an episode on bad DNA science convicting someone.
- vkou 6y agoAs an innocent person, I'd much rather take a 1 in a million chance at a wrongful conviction, than risk a jury trial.
- ClumsyPilot 6y agothe point he is making that 1 in a million was an outright lie used by prosecutors to secure convictions on innocent, while the real criminals are still out and about