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Somewhat similar thing does happens often with DNA evidence. Prosecution submits evidence where report was generated in proprietary software and company's emplo
by buzer 3y ago
Somewhat similar thing does happens often with DNA evidence. Prosecution submits evidence where report was generated in proprietary software and company's employee testifies that the result is correct & tell the chance of false positive is 1 in 10 billion. Defense asks for access to source code to validate the claims and company says they are trade secrets & judge decides to not grant access and does not dismiss the evidence.
- rolph 3y agoPCR is the product of a drug user giving creedence to hallucinations https://www.iflscience.com/lsd-dna-pcr-the-strange-origins-of-a-biology-revolution-63126 https://www.iflscience.com/lsd-dna-pcr-the-strange-origins-o... https://archive.org/details/dancingnakedinmi00mull/mode/1up https://archive.org/details/dancingnakedinmi00mull/mode/1up https://archive.org/details/makingpcrstoryof00rabi/mode/1up https://archive.org/details/makingpcrstoryof00rabi/mode/1up
- Crontab 3y agoI have wondered if there are matches between different people in DNA databases and, if so, how often is happens.
- scheme271 3y agoDepends on the lengths of the sequences being compared but the birthday problem indicates that it's more common than you'd expect.
- tomatocracy 3y agoAt the very least there will be identical multiple births in some of them.