Conviction by numbers

Mark Buchanan

Nature, 2007, vol. 445, issue 7125, 254-255

Abstract: Statistics have the power to trip everyone up — including judges and juries. Even when extra care is taken to get the numbers right in court, confusion often reigns. Mark Buchanan reports.

Date: 2007
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