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Two Kinds Of Statistics, The Kind You Look Up And The Kind You Make Up: A Critical Analysis Of Comparative Provider Statistics And The Doctrine Of Informed Consent, Jennifer Wolfberg
Two Kinds Of Statistics, The Kind You Look Up And The Kind You Make Up: A Critical Analysis Of Comparative Provider Statistics And The Doctrine Of Informed Consent, Jennifer Wolfberg
Pepperdine Law Review
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Significant Statistics: The Unwitting Policy Making Of Mathematically Ignorant Judges , Michael I. Meyerson, William Meyerson
Significant Statistics: The Unwitting Policy Making Of Mathematically Ignorant Judges , Michael I. Meyerson, William Meyerson
Pepperdine Law Review
This article will explore several areas in which judges, hampered by their mathematical ignorance, have permitted numerical analysis to subvert the goals of our legal system. In Part II, I will examine the perversion of the presumption of innocence in paternity cases, where courts make the counter-factual assumption that regardless of the evidence, prior to DNA testing, a suspect has a 50/50 chance of being the father. In Part III, I will explore the unnecessary injection of race into trials involving the statistics of DNA matching, even when race is entirely irrelevant to the particular case. Next, in Part IV, …