A 2011 study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences measuring the accuracy of 169 latent print examiners across 744 fingerprint comparisons drawn from casework-representative material, the first large-scale black-box test of examiner error rates.
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Citation
PublisherNational Academy of Sciences
Publication Year2011
URLhttps://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1018707108
Source TypeWebsite
Assessment
Reliability Tier1
Sources
Ulery, Hicklin, Buscaglia and Roberts, Accuracy and Reliability of Forensic Latent Print Decisions (PNAS, 2011)
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This source backs 8 claims across the atlas. As facts: 7 well-attested. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 6 claims: 6 well-attested.
- Forensic Disciplines and Methods, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
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7Forensic Disciplines and Methods
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1Forensic Disciplines and Methods
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