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Statistics in the Courts: Crash Course Statistics #40

Statistics in the Courts: Crash Course Statistics #40

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As we near the end of the series, we're going look at how statistics impacts our lives. Today, we're going to discuss how statistics is often used and misused in the courtroom. We're going to focus on three stories in which three huge statistical errors were made: the handwriting analysis of French officer Alfred Dreyfus in 1894, the murder charges of mother Sally Clark in 1998, and the expulsion of student Jonathan Dorfman from UC San Diego in 2011
Date: 2022-04-04

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5: 47 -Lower than one in 73 million- means LESS likely, and therefore more suspicious, but it sounds like you mean the second death could be MORE likely given the first death, and therefore less suspicious, which would be a number HIGHER than one in 73 million, not lower. I think you were probably thinking -one in [some number lower than 73 million]-, but that translates to a number higher than one in 73 million, because the -one in. - part makes it a reciprocal.
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Great video! The media also usually tends to misinterpret statistics especially when talking about the results of scientific papers. They should be required to take a crash course or something before publishing about science.
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I got lost in though for a second there and thought i was on Ted talks for a second. (Ps. this is a compliment. Ted talks are usually pretty intersting for me)
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Thought this was gonna be statistics about how divorce courts take away men's children and destroy everything they sacrificed their life to build. . But never mind.
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-Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great-
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Sadly, Sally Clark died in 2007 at age 42 from problems related to alcoholism after spending three years in prison for the alleged crime.
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