On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Kurt Buff wrote:

It doesn't. Do some investigation on forensics, and you'll find the obvious thing: People testify that they are expert at understanding how the machine in question operates, and are qualified understand the machine's output, and to interpret the results, summarizing them for the jury.

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