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2009 NAS report

The National Academy of Sciences report Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States, which found that fingerprint individualization claims lacked empirical population-frequency validation, that the categorical zero-error-rate claim was unsupported, and that structural bias management was needed. The primary catalyst for post-2009 statistical reform in fingerprint examination.

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