Episode 284 - Black Box '22 - Part 2 (with Brendan Max)

In this episode, Eric stumps Glenn with a geography based Mandela Effect question. Then the guys welcome their guest commentator, Brendan Max, Public Defender and Chief of the Forensic Science Division in Chicago, Illinois. Eric, Glenn, and Brendan take a second look at the 2025 FBI/Noblis follow-up black box study for latent fingerprints. The guys had previously done a cursory review of the paper in Episode 282, and now wanted to dig in a bit into the appendices and take another look at some trends. Brendan offers his insights and shows that he’s pretty proficient with a spreadsheet too! The guys go back and forth discussing the strengths and limitations of the study and where the methodology and practice has likely improved since the original Black Box study (conducted in 2009). Article is available for free at: doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2025.112457

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Episode 284 - Black Box '22 - Part 2 (with Brendan Max) is an episode from Double Loop Podcast by Glenn Langenburg and Eric Ray.

This episode is 01:28:36 long.

This episode was published on Jul 28, 2025.

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