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The expression and interpretation of uncertain forensic science evidence: Verbal equivalence, evidence strength, and the weak evidence effect
2013
Law and Human Behavior
forensic scientists to express their conclusions in the form of a likelihood ratio (LR), in which the value of the evidence is conveyed verbally or numerically. In this article, we report two experiments (using undergraduates and Mechanical Turk recruits) designed to investigate how much decision makers change their beliefs when presented with evidence in the form of verbal or numeric LRs. In Experiment 1 (N ϭ 494), participants read a summary of a larceny trial containing inculpatory expert
doi:10.1037/lhb0000027
pmid:23750600
fatcat:7w4kstaxvzhwjjcywtzkrd2lbm