The seminar is organized by BELSS in collaboration with the Department of Legal Studies.

Link of the seminar:
http://www.belss.unibocconi.it/wps/wcm/connect/Cdr/Belss/Home/Events/

Abstract: A decision maker who does not take proper account of the probability that a certain piece of evidence is a false positive, P(E|-H), commits an error that can be called miss rate neglect. This is a common error in legal decision making. There are many examples from legal cases where judges or juries have assessed evidence incorrectly due to miss rate neglect. I will present the results from two experiments on miss rate neglect in legal decision making, conducted by the LEVIC research group at Lund University.