One of the Biggest At-Home DNA Testing Companies Is Working with the FBI

Re:One of the Biggest At-Home DNA Testing Companies Is Worki... by kilo_bravo_3 on Friday February 01, 2019 @06:43PM (#19059875)

Fingerprinting is inaccurate.

DNA tests are inaccurate.

Witness statements are inaccurate.

Confessions are inaccurate.

Thanks to deepfakes, video is inaccurate.

Someone steals your car, eyewitnesses claim they saw them in possession of it, their fingerprints are in it, their hair is in it, a gas station security camera recorded them in it, cops found them in it, and they confessed.

"Your honor that evidence is, in order, a stress-induced misrecognition, a flawed analysis, pseudoscience, tampered with, a setup, and coerced."

What remains?

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Re:One of the Biggest At-Home DNA Testing Companies Is Worki... by mikeash on Friday February 01, 2019 @08:26PM (#19060375)

What remains is an understanding of statistics and probability applied to scientifically studied accuracy rates of the various evidence available. Combining error-prone evidence can give fairly certain results.

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Re:One of the Biggest At-Home DNA Testing Companies Is Worki... by ndnxhs on Friday February 01, 2019 @09:47PM (#19060688)

Any one of those could be wrong but all of them together are almost impossible to fake. The source of the video is also important. What incentive does a petrol station have to fake a car theft? If you can prove that the station owner is somehow involved then that changes things.

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