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New Study Reveals Digital Forensic Examiners Inclined to Biasability
Loaded on Jan. 15, 2022
by Casey Bastian
published in Criminal Legal News
February, 2022, page 44
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junk science.
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United States of America.
by Casey J. Bastian
In a first-of-its-kind study, renowned cognitive bias expert Itiel Dror and co-author Nina Surnde researched the reliability and biasability (the impact of contextual information) of digital forensics (“DF”) experts’ performance. The study is titled “A hierarchy of expert performance (HEP) applied to digital forensics: Reliability and ...
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