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Nathan Schachtman, Esq., J.D.
Legal Counsel for Scientific Challenges
Of Significance, Error, Confidence, and Confusion – In the Law and In Statistical Practice
The metaphor of law as an “empty vessel” is frequently invoked to describe the law generally, as well as pejoratively to describe lawyers. The metaphor rings true at least in describing how the factual content of legal judgments comes from outside the law. In many varieties of litigation, not only the facts and data, but the scientific and statistical inferences must be added to the “empty vessel” to obtain a correct and meaningful outcome. Continue reading
Error Statistics Philosophy 