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- Apr 2016
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The differences in their outcomes, though, is astounding.
The one thing I'd note is the personality confound -- the people who get inspired by profs, seek out extra work, involve in extra-curriculars, etc. may just be people who approach life with a better attitude period, or may be from a social class that allowed them to do these things.
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- Apr 2015
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www.washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com
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The admissions mark a watershed in one of the country’s largest forensic scandals, highlighting the failure of the nation’s courts for decades to keep bogus scientific information from juries, legal analysts said. The question now, they said, is how state authorities and the courts will respond to findings that confirm long-suspected problems with subjective, pattern-based forensic techniques — like hair and bite-mark comparisons — that have contributed to wrongful convictions in more than one-quarter of 329 DNA-exoneration cases since 1989.
This article is a good example of how people launder subjective techniques in the veneer of science. There's nothing with saying "these bite marks seem to match". But "these bitemarks would match by chance only 1 out of 20,000 times" etc. is a different story.
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