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>Algorithms are just laundering bad opinions like blood splatter analysis You have way too much faith in the legal system. So many pseudo-scientific classes of
by aimkey 5y ago
>Algorithms are just laundering bad opinions like blood splatter analysis
You have way too much faith in the legal system. So many pseudo-scientific classes of evidence exist:
- Field sobriety tests
- Ballistic forensics
- Blood spatter analysis, as you mentioned
- Bite pattern analysis
- Burn / arson forensics
- Polygraph
- Biometrics under less-than-perfect conditions (your fingerprint reader on your phone works well because it's near perfect conditions. Crime scene partial finger prints are usually insufficient. Same for facial recognition -- works with your iPhone FaceID sensor, doesn't work with the gas station 480x320 camera)
- Most DNA and hair analysis
Pretty much all hocus pocus. Courts don't care. Anything for the conviction. Anyone hoping for fair scientific analysis in a court of law today is in for a rude awakening.
- Clubber 5y agoTo be fair, polygraph tests aren't admissible as evidence in court, but I completely agree with your larger point. You also left out drug sniffing dogs, which are just a prop for the justification of an otherwise illegal search, and apparently drug sniffing cops too. There was recently a case where a cop claimed in court to have smelled unburned pot from several cars away while driving on the interstate. This was fortunately thrown out but it's not guaranteed.
- jkestner 5y agoI agree with you completely, except for the idea that I have too much faith in the legal system.