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You need to apply Bayes Theorem to DNA evidence, but courts typically don't.
by rhino369 5y ago
You need to apply Bayes Theorem to DNA evidence, but courts typically don't.
- beerandt 5y agoI'm not sure either prosecutors or defense attorneys would, in general, like the idea of basically forcing a jury to hear about percentages that they can't somewhat control via expert witness narrative. Or the idea of introducing most jurors to advanced statistics for the first time. I mean, even a lot of reasonably intelligent, college educated professionals that have taken a statistics class get lots of things very very wrong, very often.
- rhino369 5y agoIt would be the expert witnesses who would have to do the math--and they would reduce it down to a simple percentage chance. But now that I think about it, I bet defense counsel already does this. They did during the OJ trial.