Admissibility of scientific evidence on malingering of cognitive deficits, post-Daubert

Daubert, cognitive malingering, and test accuracy.

Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals (1993) held that trial judges should permit expert scientific testimony only when "the reasoning or methodology underlying the testimony is scientifically valid, and ... properly can be applied to the facts in issue." Vallabhajosula and van Gorp ("V & vG," 2001) have suggested that when the Daubert standard is applied to tests for malingered cognitive defi...

the role of semantic and communicative translation on reading comprehension of scientific texts

the following null hypothesis was proposed: h : there is no significant difference between the use of semantically or communicatively translates scientific texts. to test the null hypothesis, a number of procedures were taken first, two passages were selected form soyrcebooks of food and nutrition industry and gardening deciplines. each, in turn, was following by a number of comprehension quest...

Running head: ADMISSIBILITY OF POLYGRAPH TESTS Admissability of Polygraph Tests: The Application of Scientific Standards Post-Daubert

The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Daubert modernized the long-standing Frye precedent and requires courts to make scientific judgments. Courts, however, are not well-equipped to parse scientific arguments and the Daubert criteria offer only a rudimentary framework for decision-making. To illustrate the problems, as well as possible ways for courts to deal with scientific evidence, the paper ...

The Admissibility of Scientific Evidence in Illinois

Daubert opinion requires judges to screen scientific evidence.