25  Reflexive critique ✎ Outline

25.1 Development, testing, and validation of forensic methods

  • Forensic methods themselves must be scrutinised
  • Discard of flawed methods

25.2 Examples of discarded or limited methods

25.2.1 p-curve and z-curve

  • Limitations that led to their exclusion from the main methods chapters

25.2.2 STALT

  • Issues with this method

25.2.3 Other short-lived methods

  • Alternative p-value approaches that were short-lived in the 2010s