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Prosecutor's Fallacy

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Prosecutor’s Fallacy is a cognitive bias characterized by confusing the probability of evidence given innocence with the probability of innocence given evidence.

Example: The DNA matches only 1 in a million people, so the defendant must be guilty with 99.9999% probability.

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