”To do this is to fall victim to what is known as ‘the prosecutor’s fallacy’, where **the prosecution can imply that a similarity between the perpetrator and the accused carries more statistical weight than it deserves**. (For instance, it may seem conclusive to suggest that a DNA marker shared by the perpetrator and a suspect is possessed by only one in 20,000 people, but if the suspect had been identified by trawling through a DNA database of 60,000 people, you would expect to find three people who exhibited this property, of whom at least two would be completely innocent.)” --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[framing]] , [[story-bias]] , [[false-causality]] , [[prosecutors-fallacy]] **Source** -- [[202407221554 - B - Alchemy]]