Society, Politics & Law
Expert evidence and forensic science in the courtroom
...c. Less than 99% d. Difficult to say The correct answer is c. Discussion You may have been tempted for the poll at the outset to choose 99%, but that would have been to ignore how many people could have committed the crime, a number sometimes called the ‘base rate’. The correct answer at that stage would have been ‘difficult to say’, as you were not given the base...