This is awful. Timely reminder that sniffer dogs get it wrong up to 80% of the time. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-03/fact-check-are-drug-dogs-incorrect-75-pc-of-the-time/10568410 …https://twitter.com/abcnews/status/1186095645985107968 …
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I looked at the predictive power of sniffing dogs in a thread a while back. A rough guess is that if they're only right 20% of the time you'll have 5 strip searches of innocent people for every guilty personhttps://twitter.com/GidMK/status/1004530137872809984?s=20 …
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Worth noting that this is in a hypothetical where roughly 1 in 7 festival-goers takes illegal drugs. If that number is higher or lower, the sniffers become better/worse
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