When courtroom science goes wrong — and how stats can fix it: an illustrated feature story

When courtroom science goes wrong — and how stats can fix it: an illustrated feature story

Abstract

Bite marks, shoe prints, crime-scene fibers: Matches to suspects are often far shakier than courtroom experts claim. Better statistical methods — among them, a little beast known as the “likelihood ratio” — can cut down on wrong convictions.

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Knowable Magazine
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A stats comic narrative, in collaboration with the award-winning cartoonist Maki Naro

… featuring Scarface Diane, a pair of suspicious Birkenstocks, and the superhero duo Probability and Statistics.

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