PCAST
Definition
The President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, a US federal advisory body. Its 2016 report 'Forensic Science in Criminal Courts: Ensuring Scientific Validity of Feature-Comparison Methods' applied stricter validity criteria to several pattern-matching disciplines than the 2009 NAS report had.
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- Contextual Bias
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- Foundational Validity
- The requirement, articulated in the 2009 US National Academy of Sciences report and taken up by courts and reform bodies, that a...
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Explained in
- Cognitive Bias and the 2009 NAS ReportThe President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, a US federal advisory body. Its 2016 report 'Forensic Science in Criminal Courts: Ensuring Scien...