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De-Biasing Legal Fact-Finders With Bayesian Thinking

Topics in Cognitive Science (2020) 12(4) 1115-1131
DOI: 10.1111/tops.12419
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This article shows how Bayesian thinking can help legal fact-finders to avoid some common fallacies and biases in the evaluation of legal evidence (false dichotomy, dependence neglect, and miss rate neglect).

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Dahlman, C. (2020). De-Biasing Legal Fact-Finders With Bayesian Thinking. Topics in Cognitive Science, 12(4), 1115–1131. https://doi.org/10.1111/tops.12419

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