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Frye standard

The US legal test for admissibility of scientific evidence, originating from Frye v. United States (1923), which required that a technique be 'generally accepted' within its relevant scientific community. Replaced in federal courts by the Daubert standard (1993), which additionally requires peer review, known error rates, and methodological reliability.

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