21  Reflexive critique ✎ Outline

21.1 Development, testing, and validation of forensic methods

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

21.2 Examples of discarded or limited methods

21.2.1 p-curve and z-curve

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

21.2.2 STALT

• Issues with this method

21.2.3 Other short-lived methods

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