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PCAST 2016 report

The President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology 2016 report 'Forensic Science in Criminal Courts: Ensuring Scientific Validity of Feature-Comparison Methods,' which found that handwriting examination had foundational validity but that 'validity as applied' was not established due to insufficient black-box examiner studies.

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Courtroom-language translation problemElimination (SWGDOC)ENFSI evaluative standardFoundational validity as appliedIdentification (SWGDOC)Likelihood ratio (LR)No conclusion (SWGDOC position 5)Population-frequency anchoringSWGDOC nine-point scale

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