David H. Kaye (DHK) is one of my favourite writers. He is truly prolific and always manages to provide great insights for the reader. His grasp of statistics, logic, and the law is second-to-none, and his ability to communicate those very challenging topics to his audience is equally impressive.
As a mini introduction, David “…is Distinguished Professor, and Weiss Family Scholar in the School of Law, a graduate faculty member of Penn State’s Forensic Science Program, and a Regents’ Professor Emeritus, ASU.” If you would like to see a list of his publications check out http://personal.psu.edu/dhk3/cv/cv_pubs.html
Yes, DHK has written many things on many topics.1 But I would like to focus on his less formal writings from his blog Forensic Science, Statistics & the Law.
Below you will find a selection of posts that I find particularly interesting, each for its own reason. I plan to do a mini-review of these to explain how they relate to my view of the logical approach to evidence evaluation, among other things. However, unlike DHK, it seems to take me forever to write something worthy of posting so please don’t expect anything in the near future. I will add a link to my work as I get them done. In the meantime I recommend you take a few minutes to review David’s writings, starting with the following:
- Aleatory and Epistemic Uncertainty: http://for-sci-law.blogspot.com/2019/06/aleatory-and-epistemic-uncertainty.html
- Distorting Daubert and Parting Ways with PCAST in Romero-Lobato: http://for-sci-law.blogspot.com/2019/07/distorting-daubert-and-parting-ways.html
- The Miami Dade Bullet-matching Study Surfaces in United States v. Romero-Lobato: http://for-sci-law.blogspot.com/2019/06/the-miami-dade-bullet-matching-study.html
- Transposing Likelihoods (Again): http://for-sci-law.blogspot.com/2018/03/tranposing-likelhoods.html
- Four Cases and Two Meanings of a Likelihood Ratio: http://for-sci-law.blogspot.com/2018/03/four-cases-and-two-meanings-of.html
- “The Mask Is Down”: Fingerprints and Other Ridge Skin Impressions: http://for-sci-law.blogspot.com/2017/08/the-mask-is-down-fingerprints-and-other.html
- Are “Exclusions” Deductive and “Identifications” Merely Probabilistic?: http://for-sci-law.blogspot.com/2017/04/are-exclusions-deductive-and.html
- A Two-culture Problem with Forensic Science?: http://for-sci-law.blogspot.com/2017/11/a-two-culture-problem-with-forensic.html
- “Our Worst Fears Have Been Realized” — Forensic “Evidence, Science, and Reason in an Era of ‘Post-truth’ Politics” (Part 1): http://for-sci-law.blogspot.com/2017/11/our-worst-fears-have-been-realized.html
- A Few Statistical and Legal Ideas About the Weight of Evidence: http://for-sci-law.blogspot.com/2017/05/a-few-statistical-and-legal-ideas-about.html
- If the Shoe Fits, You Must Not Calculate It (Part I): http://for-sci-law.blogspot.com/2012/07/if-shoe-fits-you-must-not-calculate-it.html
- State v. Sharpe: What If Other Forensic Science Methods Were Given the Same Scrutiny as Polygraph Evidence?: http://for-sci-law.blogspot.com/2019/05/state-v-sharpe-what-if-other-forensic.html
- Latent Fingerprint Identification in Flux?: http://for-sci-law.blogspot.com/2015/11/latent-fingerprint-identification-in.html