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How statistical thinking should shape the courtroom

  • Written by Daniel J. Denis, Associate Professor of Quantitative Psychology, The University of Montana
imageCourtroom decisions are more like a game of chance than you may think.Cropped from aerust/flickr, CC BY

The probabilistic revolution first kicked off in the 1600s, when gamblers realized that estimating the likelihood of an event could give them an edge in games of chance.

Today, statistics has become the dominant way to communicate scientific...

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