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Re:Court rules drug dog barely more accurate than a coin fli... by CamperBob2 on Friday August 07, 2015 @03:55PM (#10024621)
That would be a fair point if the dog were given the opportunity to make both type-1 and type-2 errors. With the process behind a roadside traffic stop, we actually have no idea how often the dog would generate a false negative. We don't know its specificity in the real-world contexts where it actually matters. We just know that it is very, very sensitive... to something other than the presence of drugs.

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