False positives rare from fingerprint examiners

Tuesday, April 26, 2011 - 05:00 in Psychology & Sociology

In a controlled study, fingerprint examiners who determined that a crime scene-quality print matched a high-quality sample from the same individual were correct 99.8% of the time.

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