Conviction by mathematical error?

Conviction by mathematical error? Doctors and lawyers should get probability theory right.

Editorials Conviction by mathematical error? Doctors and lawyers should get probability theory right In a recent case of DNA evidence the probability of a chance match was quoted as 20 million to one. The accurate statement that the defendant or two other unknown people in the United Kingdom could have committed the offence is much less impressive. Other evidence was overwhelming, but this may ...

Post-Conviction DNA Testing and Wrongful Conviction

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Visual Conviction

The state of mind of a fallible, rational, self-conscious, visual observer is considered with regard to the questions: what distinguishes visual knowledge from other kinds of knowledge, and what is the strongest warrant for belief that such an observer can hold? The answer given to the first question is that visual knowledge is any kind of knowledge that the observer could hold in a two-way, sp...

Haptic conviction widgets

We introduce a haptic mousewheel as a platform for design exploration of haptic conviction widgets. Conviction is how strongly one wants to do something, or how strongly one desires a parameter to be as it is. Using the haptic mousewheel, the widgets allow users to communicate conviction using force, where greater conviction requires greater force. These widgets include buttons that take varyin...

Using Traffic Conviction Correlates