Recently, Lund and Iyer (L&I) raised an argument regarding the use of likelihood ratios in court. In our view,
their argument is based on a lack of understanding of the paradigm. L&I argue that the decision maker
should not accept the expert’s likelihood ratio without further consideration. This is agreed by all parties.
In normal practice, there is often considerable and proper exploration in court of the basis for any
probabilistic statement. We conclude that L&I argue against a practice that does not exist and which no one
advocates. Further we conclude that the most informative summary of evidential weight is the likelihood
ratio. We state that this is the summary that should be presented to a court in every scientific assessment
of evidential weight with supporting information about how it was constructed and on what it was based.