A man spent a year in jail on murder charge that hinged on disputed AI evidence

Re:A man spent a year in jail on murder charge that hinged o... by hervature on Sunday August 22, 2021 @02:25PM (#28268064)

I disagree. The canonical example here are p-values. Completely valid and accepted interpretation which will forever be abused. In the medical realm, we see the same things with false-positive and false-negative rates causing massive confusion. An even more recent example is COVID vaccine efficacy. I would take the bet that 90% of the general population could not give the accurate definition of what the definition of efficacy is.

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Re:A man spent a year in jail on murder charge that hinged o... by hellbannedguy on Sunday August 22, 2021 @03:39PM (#28268788)

Just curious about the downvotes.

1. Was it he said statistics lie sometimes?

2. Or, questioned 90% efficacy of some Covid vaccines?

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Re:A man spent a year in jail on murder charge that hinged o... by hervature on Sunday August 22, 2021 @09:08PM (#28271309)

I think you are getting downvoted because (hopefully) people recognize I didn't question their efficacy. Just that 90% of people know what that means.

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