Reasonable Doubt: Uncertainty in Education, Science and Law
Reasonable Doubt: Uncertainty in Education, Science and Law
This chapter champions the elicitation and use of probabilistic measures of uncertainty. It compares two different views (roughly corresponding, respectively, to the Bayesian and frequentist approaches to statistical inference) as to how probabilities should be used as evidence. It argues that, while the former may be a logical ideal, the latter may be more appropriate in the special circumstances of the courtroom.
Keywords: uncertainty, education, probabilities, evidence, statistical inference
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