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.
Publication
Knowable Magazine
Date
October, 2018
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.
