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Comment by gcr

What are the false positive and false negative rates of DNA testing? Paternity tests for example seem to have ~1.1% false positive rates, and that’s comparing a single sample to a single other sample.

Keep in mind that comparing a DNA sample to a gallery for the purpose of large-scale matching raises the false positive likelihood significantly. I’m not at all convinced that this could be done without convicting innocent people.

parent gcr 2 years ago

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