> This Article challenges the seemingly developing conventional wisdom that the error rate in America’s criminal justice system is 1% or even higher. In fact, looking at the best available and current data, a conservative estimate of the error rate is somewhere close to the 0.027% posited by Justice Scalia.
If I remember it correctly, it's the 4% that were supposed to be the conservative estimate.
Anyone who says the rate is 0.027% is obviously bonkers, given what sample you'd need to specify the result with a 0.0005% error. I don't see how anyone could practically do that.
> This Article challenges the seemingly developing conventional wisdom that the error rate in America’s criminal justice system is 1% or even higher. In fact, looking at the best available and current data, a conservative estimate of the error rate is somewhere close to the 0.027% posited by Justice Scalia.