This reminds me how much of “forensic science” is just “heh, close enough”. Comparing hair, fingerprints, bite marks, face recognition, ballistic analysis, blood splatter analysis, graphology, none of these has a good enough accuracy to guarantee a conviction, and yet they are routinely used just for this purpose by law enforcement.
This reminds me how much of “forensic science” is just “heh, close enough”. Comparing hair, fingerprints, bite marks, face recognition, ballistic analysis, blood splatter analysis, graphology, none of these has a good enough accuracy to guarantee a conviction, and yet they are routinely used just for this purpose by law enforcement.